Micklethwait is bookies’ favourite for Economist job
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 27 February 2006 at 16:39
Tags: Economist, Magazines
Journalists with the inside track on who is to succeed Bill Emmott as editor of The Economist could cash-in at the bookies.
Paddy Power has offered odds on what it sees as the ten front-runners. It has Economist US editor John Micklethwait as even-money favourite followed by the million-selling mag’s UK editor Emma Duncan.
The runners are: even-money Micklethwait, 6/4 Emma Duncan, 6/1 Matthew Bishop, 7/1 Ed Carr, 8/1 Gideon Rachman, 10/1 Christopher Lockwood, 16/1 Clive Crook, 100/1 Boris Johnson.
Other prices are available on request.
