FT taps Seager to be head of audience engagement

The Financial Times has named Charlotte Seager as head of audience engagement.

She will be overseeing an international team with bureaux in London, New York and Singapore focused on the innovation of FT journalism on new platforms.

Seager had previously been deputy head of audience at the FT.

Before the FT, she spent five years at the Times of London as head of engagement and innovation. She also previously worked at The Guardian.

Seager is a graduate of Durham University.

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.