Prideaux named U.S. editor of The Economist

John Prideaux has been appointed U.S. editor for The Economist.

He will be based in London.

Prideaux joined The Economist as political correspondent in 2004. Prior to this he wrote for The Economist, the Financial Times and the New Statesman as a freelancer, and worked as a researcher in the House of Commons and the European Parliament.

In addition to covering British politics, he has spent time as India Correspondent in Delhi and Finance Correspondent in London. In 2007 he was appointed Brazil Correspondent in São Paulo, where he wrote The Economist’s special report “Brazil takes off” in 2009. In 2010 he moved to London to take up his appointment as home-page editor of The Economist online and in 2013 relocated to Washington, D.C., to serve as Washington correspondent.

Prideaux has appeared as a pundit on BBC News 24, CNN, Fox News, Sky News and ITV News, as well as on BBC Radio 4 and NPR. He was educated at Cambridge University, where he won two academic scholarships, and the Sorbonne, where he was an Entente Cordiale Scholar.

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.