So I've heard a couple of times about writers for The Economists being college interns and in a recent citations-needed ep (195) the guest referred to them all being 19. I was wondering if there's any actual documentation on that, or is it just vibes based?

  • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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    9 months ago

    That's just vibes based. You can browse their writers and editors here, they're actual journalists for the most part: https://mediadirectory.economist.com/

    The Economist every year also runs a "Books by our Current Writers" section in their last issue of the year, it's definitely not mostly interns/college kids. Their articles are anonymous so the magazine "speaks with one voice" (the voice of British millionaires!) but the people they employ are all known. Their columnists, they get their own article in every issue, are also not anonymous.

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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      9 months ago

      Gotcha. Yeah, I had found that directory, but I was hoping maybe there was an expose or something calling them out for doing a bait and switch or their exploitation of interns or something.