Robinson to take over Economist’s British politics column

Duncan Robinson has been named the British politics columnist at The Economist.

He will start in January.

Robinson is currently the Brussels bureau chief at The Economist. He also writes the Charlemagne column. Prior to this Duncan was Britain political correspondent. Before joining the newspaper, he worked at the Financial Times as its Brussels correspondent.

He started at FT in 2011 as a graduate trainee, with stints covering European equities along with the retail and leisure sectors.

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.