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Quartz / Gideon Lichfield / Jan 23, 2015

By Quartz’s Gideon Lichfield who applied for the gig, but didn’t get it. —JL

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Lichterman, Joseph. "How The Economist chose its first female editor-in-chief." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 23 Jan. 2015. Web. 10 Nov. 2024.

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Lichterman, J. (2015, Jan. 23). How The Economist chose its first female editor-in-chief. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved November 10, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/how-the-economist-chose-its-first-female-editor-in-chief/

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Lichterman, Joseph. "How The Economist chose its first female editor-in-chief." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified January 23, 2015. Accessed November 10, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/how-the-economist-chose-its-first-female-editor-in-chief/.

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