• Luxury
  • Updated Nov 4 2016 at 1:25 PM

New Luxury and Life&Leisure; roles at AFR

Katarina Kroslakova and Charis Perkins take up new roles at the AFR.
Katarina Kroslakova and Charis Perkins take up new roles at the AFR.

Katarina Kroslakova has been appointed to a newly created unique role of Luxury correspondent, underscoring The Australian Financial Review's commitment to one of Australia's booming sectors.

As a senior writer Kroslakova will write for The AFR Magazine, Luxury magazine, Life&Leisure;, AFR Weekend, daily news and an upgraded lifestyle and luxury section on afr.com, including blogging, video and social media. She will cover all areas of luxury, particularly the business of luxury.

Kroslakova will continue to edit the quarterly Luxury magazine, the latest edition out tomorrow.

As well as editing Luxury magazine, Kroslakova has been a successful editor of Life&Leisure; for the past six years, improving both titles editorially and commercially.

Katarina Kroslakova has been appointed Luxury correspondent.
Katarina Kroslakova has been appointed Luxury correspondent.

The Financial Review's editor in chief Michael Stutchbury, and editor Paul Bailey described her appointment as an exciting opportunity for the Financial Review to further leverage the masthead's valuable audience and sumptuous content into high-end creative business areas.

Prior to joining the Financial Review, Kroslakova was editor of Limelight magazine. Life&Leisure; editor Charis Perkins has been appointed editor of the weekly Life&Leisure; liftout, after serving as stand-in editor for the past six months.

In addition to editing L&L;, Perkins will have responsibility for producing the lifestyle and magazine content online in conjunction with the editors of these products.

This is part of a determined push to raise the profile of Financial Review magazine and lifestyle content online to reflect the richness of what's presented to readers in print.

Perkins has worked in various production roles at the Financial Review since 2008, most recently producing Life&Leisure; and content for AFR Weekend and as acting L&L; editor.

Charis Perkins has been appointed editor of Life&Leisure.
Charis Perkins has been appointed editor of Life&Leisure.;

Commenting on the appointments, Stutchbury said the Financial Review's core business readership audience provided an opportunity to extend to the luxury end of various consumer "verticals", as shown by the Financial Review Domain Prestige and Australia's Top 100 Restaurants initiatives.