Why don't any Econnomist articles have author names?

Most magazines and newspapers use pseudonyms to identify the author. However, articles in The Economist are often anonymous. Why?

Celebrating 170 years, the first Economist.com article was published on September 2, 1843

According to the Economist editorial board, the magazine is still maintaining a traditional writing style that many other publications have now abandoned. History shows that many publications print articles without signatures or anonymously, the purpose is to give writers a free space to express different thoughts and for the newspapers to create an impression.

However, to make the impression stronger, from the beginning, anonymity was used to present conflicting opinions in The Economist. This allowed multiple authors to synthesize multiple sources into one article. Each week, in meetings, the editor-in-chief would discuss and debate with all the editors. At this point, the journalist was just an additional contributor, and some articles would be "deformed" almost completely and it would become the product of a collective rather than a single author.

The magazine asserted that what made a newspaper famous was “what they wrote and published, not who wrote it.” And in the words of Geoffrey Crowther, editor of The Economist from 1938 to 1956, anonymity helped editors understand that they were “not masters but servants of something greater than themselves… it gave the paper an incredible dynamic both in ideas and in the execution of principles.”

The autograph section at the top of each article usually includes the name of the single author. Traditionally, retired editors who write a typical editorial will also sign their names, but the printed version will remain anonymous.

According to The Economist, however, there are differences in how it is used here. A few years ago, we decided to start using signatures on our blogs, to avoid confusion over multiple authors (for example, the blog on "American Democracy" - which focuses on politics).

Each journalist has a different opinion, so we use initials to differentiate between them. This method will not lead to any errors, but we think the best method is to combine anonymity and signatures. We also name our journalists when they appear in videos, and many of them include a link to their Twitter account below their name.

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