The Economist hires Quan as senior social media editor

Kristene Quan

The Economist has hired Kristene Quan as senior social media editor.

She will start next month and be based in New York.

Quan has been executive producer of digital content at Postmedia in Toronto since January 2020. Before that, she was with The Globe and Mail as a content strategist and a content editor. She was also digital and social media editor for Report on Business, the Globe and Mail’s business publication.

She also worked as a reporter for Canadian Business magazine.

Quan holds a master’s degree from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree from McGill 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.