Economist hires Holehouse from MLex

Matthew Holehouse

Matthew Holehouse, a reporter on the MLex Brexit service, has been hired by The Economist.

He will start next month and be based in London.

At MLex, he covered the UK side of the negotiations surrounding the UK’s extraction from the European Union, joining a team of journalists in London and Brussels covering the regulatory and political landscape.

Holehouse previously worked as Westminster political correspondent for the Daily Telegraph.

Holehouse has won the prestigious British Journalism Awards 2018 for Specialist Media for his coverage of the Brexit negotiations.

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.