The Economist is launching “The Economist Executive Education,” an online executive education program. The initiative is created by Economist journalists and features global experts. The course is designed for senior leaders and executives across...
The Economist announced Tuesday that it’s expanding its science and data journalism with a new weekly podcast, “The Jab from The Economist,” as well as a new COVID mortality-risk calculator and two weekly newsletters....
James Bennet, the former editorial page editor at The New York Times, is joining The Economist. Bennet will be a visiting senior editor for one year. He starts on Feb. 1. Bennet resigned from...
Idrees Kahloon has been named Washington correspondent for The Economist. He previously was a policy correspondent covering domestic politics and policy. Kahloon will start his new position in January. Prior to that, he worked on...
Emma Hogan has been named Americas editor for The Economist. She will start her new position in early 2021. Hogan is deputy briefings editor, working on long-form articles across the publication. Previously, she was...
The Economist was founded as a print newspaper in 1843, but today we have a growing digital operation and 50m followers on our social-media accounts. Ever more people are encountering our journalism for the first...
The Economist has hired Don Weinland to the role of China business and finance editor. His previous role was at the Financial Times’ Beijing bureau, where he had worked since January 2016. He will cover...
Lara O’Reilly of Digiday interviewed The Economist president Bob Cohn about how the magazine has increased its subscription retention. O’Reilly writes, “Subscriptions and circulation made up around two-thirds (£204 million ($265 million) of the £326 million...
The Economist has started a new digital ad campaign to drive U.S. readers to its 2020 election coverage, reports Sara Guaglione of Publishers Daily. Guaglione reports, “The last time The Economist launched a U.S.-targeted digital ad...
The Economist is driving subscribers from LinkedIn by posting business and financial news on the social media site and then posting everything, reports Lucinda Southern of Digiday. Southern writes, “After switching gears on its content...
