The Economist hires Weinland from the FT to cover China

Don Weinland

The Economist has hired Don Weinland to the role of China business and finance editor.

His previous role was at the Financial Times’ Beijing bureau, where he had worked since January 2016. He will cover Chinese business and finance from Hong Kong.

Weinland had also worked for the South China Morning Post as its China banking correspondent and the China Economic Review as a staff writer.

He was also deputy business editor of the Phnom Penh Post. Weinland is a graduate of the University of Nevada-Reno.

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.