🇬🇧 United Kingdom
credibility 5/5
lean center
The Economist
The Economist is a London-based weekly newspaper and digital news outlet covering international news and analysis. It reports on politics, business, economics, finance, science, technology, and culture with an institutional editorial voice.
Profile
Founded
1843
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Ownership
Owned by The Economist Group; Exor N.V. is the largest shareholder, with other shares held by individual, family, and employee shareholders, and trustees overseeing editorial independence.
Funding
subscriptions and advertising
Coverage focus
Global politics, economics, business, finance, technology, science, public policy, and culture.
Reputation
It is generally regarded as an influential and analytically strong international publication, while critics note its classical-liberal, pro-market editorial stance and use of mostly unsigned articles.
In our corpus
9,170 articles · 1 May → 7 Jul
Domain
Reader notes. Many articles are behind a paywall. · Most articles are published without individual bylines. · Editorial perspective is institutional and broadly classical liberal.
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