Rosie Blau is Editor of 1843 Magazine, sister publication to The Economist and named for the year The Economist was founded. She joined The Economist in 2011 as a reporter on the Britain section. From 2014-17 she was based in Beijing as China Correspondent. She began her reporting career on trade magazines and worked at the Financial Times from 2002-2011, where her jobs included Books Editor and Leader Writer. She was a judge for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2010.
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