Economist Editor Embraces the Social Media Age

Zanny Minton Beddoes chats with The Guardian's Mark Sweney.

EconomistMay282016IssueMark Sweney’s conversation in The Guardian with The Economist editor Zanny Minton Beddoes offers a number of powerful encapsulations of the challenge at hand. Minton Beddoes, who arrived in February of 2015, is the publication’s first female editor and looks forward to a time when that aspect will no longer be newsworthy.

1) “We don’t want to be the grandpa at the disco,” she says. This vivid, hilarious quote is the headline of The Guardian piece, and really says it all.

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