The Economist Group announced Tuesday the hiring of Bob Cohn as president and managing director for The Economist. Cohn will lead the core publication business, focusing on expanding subscriptions and readership around the world,...
The Economist has centered its social media strategy on driving people back to its site to subscribe, and its efforts are bearing fruit, reports Lucinda Southern of Digiday. Southern writes, “Since changing its social media strategy...
The Economist has 1 million YouTube subscribers and is seeing signs that these videos are driving referral traffic back to its site, where it wants people to subscribe, reports Lucinda Southern of Digiday. Southern writes,...
Duncan Weldon will be joining The Economist from next week, according to his tweet. He will be covering and writing about the British economy. Weldon is a writer and broadcaster and specializes in economics,...
The Economist is hiring a social media fellow out of its London newsroom. The company has a growing digital operation and 50 million followers on its social media accounts and looking for a new...
Duncan Robinson, a political correspondent for The Economist in London, is moving to Brussels to write the Charlemagne column for the publication. Before joining The Economist, he worked at the Financial Times as its Brussels...
The Economist’s circulation held steady at 1.6 million during the first six months of the year, essentially flat from the previous period, despite a price rise in March 2019, according to data released Thursday...
Lucinda Southern of Digiday writes about how The Economist is using its email newsletters to improve subscriber retention. Southern writes, “n recent months, the publisher has changed the daily newsletter to align with the content of...
A new app offering content from the Financial Times, Bloomberg and the Economist for a single monthly payment has been launched. Charlotte Tobitt of the Press Gazette reports, “Mogul News bills itself as offering access...
The Economist is studying whether a new video series can drive subscriptions, reports Lucinda Southern of Digiday. Southern reports, “In September, as part of a project funded by the Google News Initiative, The Economist will launch a...
