NY Times names Cohen its global economics correspondent

Patricia Cohen

The New York Times has named Patricia Cohen its global economics correspondent.

She will be based in London.

Cohen currently covers the U.S. economy for The Times and is the author of “In Our Prime: The Fascinating History and Promising Future of Middle Age.”

Cohen joined The Times in 1997 as ideas editor to create the Arts & Ideas section, and later oversaw the paper’s theater coverage. An award-winning reporter, she has written extensively about ideas, books and the arts, and worked as an investigative reporter in the Culture department.

Before joining The Times, Cohen worked at The Washington Post and Rolling Stone magazine, and did a stint working for a wire service in India. She started her journalism career at Newsday and New York Newsday as a member of the editorial board, and then political editor. She covered City Hall and the federal courts before becoming the editor of the Sunday opinion section, Currents.

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.