David Rennie was educated at
Westminster School and
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read English. He started his career at the
Evening Standard, where he worked from 1992 until 1996. He then went to work for
The Daily Telegraph in London, before joining their foreign staff, being posted to Sydney (1998), Beijing (1998–2002), Washington, D.C. (2002–2005), and Brussels (2005–2007). before moving to London, where he wrote the
Bagehot column focusing on British politics from July 2010 to July 2012. In 2010, he received the
UACES/
Thomson Reuters "Reporting Europe" award. He moved to Beijing to take up a new posting as bureau chief in May 2018. He launched the
Chaguan column in September 2018. on
1A, produced by
WAMU in Washington, D.C. and distributed nationally by
NPR (National Public Radio). Since late 2022, he has been the co-presenter (alongside Alice Su) of
The Economist podcast "Drum Tower", a weekly review of Chinese politics, culture, history and society. Rennie won the 2023
Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia, awarded by the
Asia Society, for his
The Economist special report on China and the world order. The prize was shared with colleague Sue-Lin Wong of
The Economist for her portrait of
Xi Jinping in the podcast "The Prince". ==References==