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Faisal Islam appointed Economics Editor for BBC News

Faisal Islam

By: Sarwar Alam

Financial journalist Faisal Islam will join the BBC as its new business editor, effective from the New Year. Islam has been the political editor for Sky News since 2014.. The 41-year-old gained an Economics degree from Cambridge Univerisyt and then did a post-graduate Diploma in Newspaper Journalism from City University in London. He served as an economic correspondent at The Observer and worked as Economic Editor for Channel 4 News before joining Sky News. He has covered major stories such as the Icelandic banking crisis and Lehman Brothers fall from Wall Street. As a business journalist, he worked on trends in growing economies of the world including…

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