Emily Passer, who worked media relations, PR initiatives and content promotion at the Financial Times, has joined Quartz as communications director of the global business website.
Publisher Jay Lauf said Passer has an impressive understanding of the business media and the mission of the Atlantic Media-owned site.
Before FT, which is still part of U.K. educational publisher Pearson, Passer worked in the New York marketing communications group of Omnicom’s FleishmanHillard.
Passer reports to Emily Lenzner, VP-global communications for AM. Kevin Delaney is editor-in-chief of Quartz.
Launched in Sept. 2012 by Atlantic Media, Quartz is an ad supported non-subscription site that reaches more than 3.5M unique visitors per month.
Its advertisers include Citibank, Morgan Stanley, Adobe, Sony, Rolex and Harvard Business Scholl.
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