Lionel Barber, the former editor at The Financial Times from 2005 to 2020, is joining media news site Breaker to write about the media industry.
Lachlan Cartwright of Breaker writes, “It is a true privilege and a pleasure that Barber is joining Breaker to give his unique insight on the state of the media from London. Lionel Barber’s Briefing will appear every other week, alternating with Hamish’s Hot Sauce.”
Under Barber, FT moved from being a print-focused news provider to include a digital business with more than a million paying subscribers.
“Gambling Man,” his biography of Masayoshi Son, CEO and founder of SoftBank, was published in October 2024 by Penguin Random House. During his editorship, the FT won multiple prizes for its journalism, including three Newspaper of the Year awards and reaching 1m paying readers worldwide.
At the FT, he interviewed many world leaders including Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Angela Merkel and Narendra Modi. He is the recipient of the Legion d’Honneur and the Stella d’Italia for services to journalism and the transatlantic community.
