John Shields

I’ve read @TheEconomist since I was a kid 🤓and I remember exactly where* I was when an early ipod owner told me what a podcast was. So I’m beyond chuffed to see a pod we made make the cover

A new series of Boss Class kicks off today with one of the biggest jobs in the world—the Google boss dealing with 2 billion users a day. And one of the best—a designer of space Lego. It's funny and useful. Have a listen econ.st/44Spfwv

Super job on a super team. Apply! economist.com/china/2025/04/…

Online scamming is a vast, sophisticated and fast-growing global enterprise that compares in size and scope to the illegal drug industry. Except that in many ways it is worse. As our investigation finds, nobody is safe from Scam Inc econ.st/4hD0CHi

My year-long investigation into the multibillion dollar world of online scams is out today — on the cover of The Economist and in my new 8-part podcast series, Scam Inc Read the article: bit.ly/scam-inc Listen to the podcast: econ.st/3CFzGaL

“Scam Inc”, our new podcast, explores a dystopian, criminal underworld of forced labour, corruption and intrigue. Listen along as @suelinwong investigates econ.st/42Htaeb 👇

This year I spent months in Colombia, Mexico, and California, following Chinese migrants hoping to seek asylum in the US. It's a route that's become known as 走线. We made a 4-part podcast series about their journey. The first episode is free this week: open.spotify.com/episode/0vTtYs…

Love @Economist podcasts? Wanna tell everyone else how good they are? Here's the job for you linkedin.com/jobs/view/3960…

Why are two old, unpopular men running for the world's most demanding job - again? Our new series is about the generation that blew up American politics. Episode 2 is out today econ.st/3xTkmov

The presidential debate was awful for Joe Biden, but the cover-­up has been worse. The dishonesty of his campaign provokes contempt. He must withdraw econ.st/3VSrJEF

@shashj @Birdyword There goes the neighbourhood

An astonishing bit of media entrepreneurship here, an effort to merge an increasingly elderly readership's interest in the Lord Lucan case (which you would have to be in your late 60s to have first read about as an adult) with the modern True Crime craze.

What is intelligence? In a special four-part series our “Babbage” podcast examines the science that built the AI revolution. Host @alokjha discovers how human intelligence relates to the artificial kind. Join us: econ.st/4c2O7Tg 👇🧵

The only non-Scandinavian country that makes it into the top 5 places in the world to be a working woman is…🇫🇷 The latest glass-ceiling ranking from ⁦@TheEconomist⁩ ⬇️

When we chose the title of this series a year ago, Alexei Navalny's 'beautiful Russia of the future' felt like something more than a dream. His death is a nightmare. @ArkadyOstrovsky's new episode is a kind of catharsis x.com/TheEconomist/s…

New episode. A tribute to Alexei Navalny and to some very special people in Russia. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/nex…

Want to work at @TheEconomist? Our award-winning social-media team is recruiting an editor and a fellow (intern), both based in our London newsroom. The closing date is February 16th. Full details here 👇economist.com/news/2024/01/3…

Talk to people who have made the leap into CEO roles and they will frequently comment on how intense the job is, how tough it is to switch off. The sheer physical demands of big jobs mean that certain types of people have an advantage over others econ.st/48Q1tjO 👇

On this week’s “Drum Tower” @DSORennie and @aliceysu discuss Taiwan’s upcoming elections. The stakes are higher than ever before—not just for Taiwan but for the future of democracy. Listen to the podcast: econ.st/3RQUEal 👇

Rishi Sunak is not very good at politics. His Rwanda policy is bad—but his party is the real problem. The Conservatives are incapable of offering Britain either stability or normality econ.st/48bRAwB

We’re thrilled that “Next Year in Moscow”, our podcast with @ArkadyOstrovsky, has been featured by @ApplePodcasts as one of the shows they loved this year econ.st/47REqUI

Number two on the New Yorker list of the year's best podcasts. Huge credit to @arkadyostrovsky and a brilliant team