Betting suspended on new Economist editor
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 10 March 2006 at 15:49
Tags: Economist, Journalism
The FT goes for lunch with outgoing Economist editor Bill Emmott:
He says that there are at least five internal candidates for the editorship. (They are rumoured to include [US editor John] Micklethwait, deputy editor Emma Duncan and business affairs editor Ed Carr.) Traditionally, the magazine’s journalists are invited to write confidential letters to the chairman about the candidates, and he expects this to happen on this occasion.
Meanwhile. the Times’ Martin Waller reports that bookmaker Paddy Power has stopped taking bets on who will be Emmott’s successor after several punters this week put large sums — up to £500 on — Carr at 6-1. Micklethwait had previously been the odd-on favourite.
Tags: Economist, Journalism
