Bennet, former NY Times editorial page editor, joining The Economist

James Bennet

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 the Times in June 2020 after it published a much-criticized op-ed by a United States senator calling for a military response to civic unrest in American cities.

He joined the Times in 2016 after being editor in chief of The Atlantic from 2006 to 2016. He previously worked at the Times as a White House correspondent, Jerusalem bureau chief and Beijing correspondent.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.