LA Times hires Cory for the audience engagement team

Leslie Cory has joined the Los Angeles Times audience engagement team as an editor embedded in the Features section.

Previously, Cory was priority product development lead at the Solutions Journalism Network.

Before that, she has held the posts of solutions specialist health, story database fellow and SolutionsU Newsletter and social media strategist.

She was also a podcast producer at KUOW Public Radio and has served as a strategy and relationship consultant at The American Leader.

She was senior editor of opinion and community engagement at The Hartford Courant.

Additionally, Cory has worked at Fifty Acres, Rocky Mountain Student Media Group and Investigative Reporting Program.

Cory is a M.A. in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.