Categories: OLD Media Moves

Website slams all-white staff at Economist

A website has been created called http://economist-staff.com/ that is critical of the British-based business magazine because 94 of its 96 staffers listed in its online directory are white, contrary to its stated mission of promoting diversity.

The site was created by Adriel Luis, a Colorlines.com contributor and artist based in Brooklyn.

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.