Knowles named Midwest correspondent for The Economist

Daniel Knowles

Daniel Knowles has been named the Midwest correspondent for The Economist.

He will be based in Chicago.

Knowles currently works on the foreign desk in London of The Economist. He covers stories worldwide, with a particular focus on fragile states, corruption and conflict.

Knowles was previously based in Mumbai, where he covered business in South Asia; Nairobi, where he was The Economist‘s Africa correspondent, and Washington, DC.

Knowles studied history and economics at Oxford University.

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.