FT names Ebner director of editorial growth and engagement

Sarah Ebner has been named director of editorial growth and engagement at the Financial Times.

She will have oversight of the current audience team as well as bringing newsletters into the fold.

Ebner has been at the FT for the past four years and previously was head of newsletters. She previously was at The Telegraph as head of email and editorial newsletters.

She also worked at the Jewish Chronicle as deputy editor and at The Times and Times Digital for nearly eight years.

Ebner is a graduate of the London School of Economics.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.