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30 Sep 2022
I’ve read @TheEconomist since I was a kid 🤓and I remember exactly where* I was when an early ipod owner told me what a podcast was. So I’m beyond chuffed to see a pod we made make the cover
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12 May 2025
A new series of Boss Class kicks off today with one of the biggest jobs in the world—the Google boss dealing with 2 billion users a day. And one of the best—a designer of space Lego. It's funny and useful. Have a listen econ.st/44Spfwv
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6 Feb 2025
Online scamming is a vast, sophisticated and fast-growing global enterprise that compares in size and scope to the illegal drug industry. Except that in many ways it is worse. As our investigation finds, nobody is safe from Scam Inc econ.st/4hD0CHi
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7 Feb 2025
My year-long investigation into the multibillion dollar world of online scams is out today — on the cover of The Economist and in my new 8-part podcast series, Scam Inc
Read the article: bit.ly/scam-inc
Listen to the podcast: econ.st/3CFzGaL
6 Feb 2025
Online scamming is a vast, sophisticated and fast-growing global enterprise that compares in size and scope to the illegal drug industry. Except that in many ways it is worse. As our investigation finds, nobody is safe from Scam Inc econ.st/4hD0CHi
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6 Feb 2025
“Scam Inc”, our new podcast, explores a dystopian, criminal underworld of forced labour, corruption and intrigue.
Listen along as @suelinwong investigates econ.st/42Htaeb 👇
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26 Nov 2024
This year I spent months in Colombia, Mexico, and California, following Chinese migrants hoping to seek asylum in the US. It's a route that's become known as 走线. We made a 4-part podcast series about their journey. The first episode is free this week: open.spotify.com/episode/0vT…
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11 Jul 2024
Love @Economist podcasts? Wanna tell everyone else how good they are? Here's the job for you linkedin.com/jobs/view/39609…
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11 Jul 2024
Why are two old, unpopular men running for the world's most demanding job - again? Our new series is about the generation that blew up American politics. Episode 2 is out today econ.st/3xTkmov
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4 Jul 2024
The presidential debate was awful for Joe Biden, but the cover-up has been worse. The dishonesty of his campaign provokes contempt. He must withdraw econ.st/3VSrJEF
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19 Mar 2024
What is intelligence?
In a special four-part series our “Babbage” podcast examines the science that built the AI revolution. Host @alokjha discovers how human intelligence relates to the artificial kind. Join us: econ.st/4c2O7Tg 👇🧵
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7 Mar 2024
The only non-Scandinavian country that makes it into the top 5 places in the world to be a working woman is…🇫🇷
The latest glass-ceiling ranking from @TheEconomist ⬇️
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4 Mar 2024
When we chose the title of this series a year ago, Alexei Navalny's 'beautiful Russia of the future' felt like something more than a dream. His death is a nightmare. @ArkadyOstrovsky's new episode is a kind of catharsis x.com/TheEconomist/status/17…
4 Mar 2024
Our “Next Year in Moscow” podcast followed free-thinking Russians who fled their country after the invasion of Ukraine. Alexei Navalny opted to return. Following his death, the series returns with a bonus episode econ.st/49WOJYQ 🎧
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3 Mar 2024
New episode. A tribute to Alexei Navalny and to some very special people in Russia. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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1 Feb 2024
Want to work at @TheEconomist? Our award-winning social-media team is recruiting an editor and a fellow (intern), both based in our London newsroom. The closing date is February 16th. Full details here 👇economist.com/news/2024/01/3…
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30 Jan 2024
Talk to people who have made the leap into CEO roles and they will frequently comment on how intense the job is, how tough it is to switch off.
The sheer physical demands of big jobs mean that certain types of people have an advantage over others econ.st/48Q1tjO 👇
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12 Jan 2024
On this week’s “Drum Tower” @DSORennie and @aliceysu discuss Taiwan’s upcoming elections. The stakes are higher than ever before—not just for Taiwan but for the future of democracy. Listen to the podcast: econ.st/3RQUEal 👇
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14 Dec 2023
Rishi Sunak is not very good at politics. His Rwanda policy is bad—but his party is the real problem. The Conservatives are incapable of offering Britain either stability or normality econ.st/48bRAwB
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29 Nov 2023
We’re thrilled that “Next Year in Moscow”, our podcast with @ArkadyOstrovsky, has been featured by @ApplePodcasts as one of the shows they loved this year econ.st/47REqUI
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27 Nov 2023
Number two on the New Yorker list of the year's best podcasts. Huge credit to @arkadyostrovsky and a brilliant team
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21 Nov 2023
Great to see @arkadyostrovsky's Next Year In Moscow in rarified company among Audible's pods of the year audible.com/blog/article-202…
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