FT promotes Raptopoulos to head of community engagement

Lilah Raptopoulos

The Financial Times has promoted Lilah Raptopoulos to the position of head of audience engagement in the United States.

She previously had been a community editor for 3.5 years, working with journalists and editors across the FT’s newsroom to develop community-led journalism, and work readers’ insight and experiences into reporting.

Raptopoulos previously worked at the Guardian in London.

She holds degrees from Connecticut College and New York 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.