Easton, American finance editor for Economist, wins award

Tom Easton

Tom Easton, American finance editor at the Economist has been named Journalist of the Year 2017 by The CFA Society of the UK.

His piece: The Barbarian Establishment was “thought to be the individual article that best advanced investor education by virtue of its relevance, clarity and content,” according to the organization.

Easton joined The Economist in 2000, and was New York bureau chief before being appointed the Asian business editor in 2007. Previously he was the New York and Tokyo bureau chief for The Baltimore Sun, and a senior editor of Forbes. Easton writes on finance, law and capitalism.

Easton was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist in 2006.

The Economist was named the organization’s Publication of the Year for 2017. The award goes to the publication that has made the most significant overall contribution to the advancement of investor education over the past 12 months.

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.