On the US market, The Economist is quietly eyeing the one million mark in copy sales. it did it by targeting smart people, says MarketWatch media columnist Jon Friedman. > read of MarketWatch
> If you want a good insight on the Economist, watch this 2007 video interview of John Micklethwait made available by Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Here (it’s a 45′ segment).
> And I you want more, read his profile in the Independent
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