Rabinovitch moving to DC to cover economy for The Economist

Simon Rabinovitch

Simon Rabinovitch, the Asia economy editor for The Economist, is moving to Washington to cover the U.S. economy.

He joined The Economist as Asia economics editor in 2014, primarily focused on Chinese economics and finance.

Prior to that he was a correspondent with the Financial Times in Beijing and Shanghai from 2011 to 2014. Rabinovitch started as a reporter with Reuters in London and arrived in China in 2007 to cover the economy, but also had a brief stint as a table-tennis specialist during the Beijing Olympics.

He has been interviewed on BBC World Service and NPR, among others.

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.