FT’s Agenda hires Sandler as associate editor

Emma Sandler

Emma Sandler has been hired as associate editor at Agenda, a publication under the FT Specialist division of the Financial Times company.

Agenda covers corporate governance, and Sandler covers shareholder proposals and agreements, activist investors, and shareholder relations.

Previously, she worked at Glossy, under Digiday Media, between 2018 and 2024 where she was the beauty and wellness editor, overseeing private and public markets reporting, focused on private equity and venture capital investments and IPOs.

Earlier in her career she worked at Forbes Media covering technology, followed by auto finance at Royal Media.

She has a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern 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.