The Economist taps Owen as head of social media

Isobel Owen

The Economist has named Isobel Owen as its head of social media.

Owen has been a senior audience editor helping adapt The Economist’s journalism for social media and other digital platforms. She collaborates with colleagues within the Audience team and across the newsroom to reach new audiences and engage our current subscribers by leading on push alerts.

Owen also works closely with the podcasts team and is always looking for new ways to present our audio journalism across social media. She has written for various digital sections of The Economist.

Before joining The Economist as a social-media fellow in 2019, Owen completed a Masters in News Journalism at Cardiff 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.