Hogan named Americas editor for The Economist

Emma Hogan

Emma Hogan has been named Americas editor for The Economist.

She will start her new position in early 2021.

Hogan is deputy briefings editor, working on long-form articles across the publication.

Previously, she was South-East Asia correspondent, Deputy Europe Editor and Britain correspondent. As a reporter, she has travelled to nearly two dozen countries writing about politics, social affairs and human rights. As deputy Europe editor she covered the 2015-16 refugee crisis, spending time in camps in Greece, with smugglers in Turkey and five days on a migrant rescue boat off the coast of Libya.

Hogan has appeared regularly on the BBC, Sky News, CNN and CNBC, while she has spoken on BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service and LBC Radio.

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.