Fasman named Economist’s Washington correspondent

Jon Fasman has been named the Washington correspondent at The Economist.

He has previously been with the magazine in Singapore as Southeast Asia bureau chief, where he covered politics, business, finance and economics.

Previously he covered the American South, with a particular focus on crime and American criminal-justice policy.

In addition to his work for The Economist, he is also the author of two novels, both published by The Penguin Press: “The Geographer’s Library,” which was a New York Times bestseller in 2005 and has been translated into more than a dozen languages; and “The Unpossessed City,” which was published in autumn of 2008 and was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award.

Fasman was educated at Brown and Oxford universities and has worked as a journalist in Washington, D.C., New York, Oxford, and Moscow.