Quan now deputy head of social media for The Economist

Kristene Quan

Kristene Quan is now deputy head of social media for The Economist.

She helps lead the publication’s daily social operations and social-media strategy, with a particular focus on its audiences in North America. Prior to joining The Economist, she was executive producer of digital content at Postmedia where she worked with newsrooms across Canada.

Before that, she was at The Globe and Mail where she worked in various roles, including content strategist, digital editor and social-media editor.

Quan has contributed to a number of publications including Time, MarketWatch, Report on Business Magazine, Maclean’s and Canadian Business. She holds a bachelor’s degree from McGill University and a master’s degree 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.