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Newsnight announces new Economics Editor
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Paul Mason has been appointed BBC Newsnight's Economics Editor on a 12 month attachment.
He has carved out a unique reporting beat on BBC Two's Newsnight since 2001, initially as Business Correspondent and later in a broader brief.
He replaces Stephanie Flanders, who was recently appointed the BBC's Economics Editor.
Newsnight Editor Peter Barron said: "Paul has been a fantastic asset to the programme reporting on business, technology and political economy.
"I'm excited by his innovative and thoughtful approach to the economics agenda – both domestic and international – at this crucial moment."
Paul Mason said: "I'm following in the footsteps of two outstanding economists but I am not going to try to replicate what they've achieved.
"What I do I would describe as political economy, and whether it's a global banking system in meltdown or a Seventies-style strike wave in China's factories, or just the death of the great British pub, what I am going to concentrate on is digging out the story and telling it.
"It's always about the impact on real people.
"During my time on the programme I've watched as environmental and social responsibility have moved from the edge of business thinking to join profit and growth at the very centre of what businesses and governments think about; they call it the 'triple bottom line' and it's an agenda I want the programme to reflect."
Paul Mason joined Newsnight in 2001 as Business Correspondent, making his first live appearance on 9/11.
Last year he saw his role widen to take in reporting the Kenyan crisis, investigating private security companies in Iraq and, most recently, major films on the Chinese economy.
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