The FT’s Wolf deals with a social media impersonator
Financial Times chief economics commentator Martin Wolf writes about a fake “Martin Wolf” that is doling out financial advice on social media. Wolf writes, “I have an alter ego or, as it is now known on the internet, an avatar. My avatar looks like me and sounds at least a bit like me. He pops up […]
FT hires Armstrong as chief UK biz correspondent
The Financial Times has hired Ashley Armstrong to be the chief UK business correspondent. She will start on June 2. Armstrong is currently the business editor at The Sun. She also worked at The Times of London as retail and M&A editor and at The Telegraph as a business and retail reporter. Armstrong holds a bachelor’s degree […]
Scaggs departs FT to start The Hedge newsletter
Financial Times staff writer Alexandra Scaggs has left to start The Hedge, a newsletter to cover grocery bills and utilities. She will write twice a month for the FT Alphaville. Before the FT, she had been covering markets, primarily fixed-income investing, at Barron’s. She previously covered corporate fixed-income markets for the Alphaville blog and the FT paper. She […]
FT seeks US trading and crypto correspondent
The Financial Times is seeking a reporter to cover Wall Street’s biggest market makers, exchanges and cryptocurrency groups. The trading and crypto correspondent will lead our coverage of one of the most dynamic and quickly growing areas in US finance. The role straddles corporate and markets reporting, so the ideal candidate will be as comfortable […]
FT names Clarfelt its US asset management correspondent
Harriet Clarfelt has also been appointed U.S. asset management correspondent at the Financial Times to report on investment and wealth management. She has been writing about U.S. debt capital markets in New York. She was previously deputy markets news editor in London. She joined the FT from its sister title Investors’ Chronicle, where she reported […]
FT names Platt its US investment editor
Senior corporate finance correspondent Eric Platt has been named U.S. investment editor at the Financial Times. Platt will oversee coverage of asset management, including major firms such as BlackRock, while continuing to report on private credit and Berkshire Hathaway. He previously was also U.S. capital markets correspondent and a founding reporter on fastFT, the FT’s breaking news […]
FT names Ebner director of editorial growth and engagement
Sarah Ebner has been named director of editorial growth and engagement at the Financial Times. She will have oversight of the current audience team as well as bringing newsletters into the fold. Ebner has been at the FT for the past four years and previously was head of newsletters. She previously was at The Telegraph as […]
Remembering journalist Gwen Robinson
Financial Times associate editor Edward Luce writes about Gwen Robinson, the former Financial Times and Nikkei Asia journalist who died last week at the age of 65. Luce writes, “She saw through bullshitters like jellyfish. But her kindness to young journalists, friends of friends, those suffering from proverbial broken wings and anyone who sought advice, was […]
FT taps Barnes to cover US deals and activists
The Financial Times has named Oliver Barnes its U.S. deals and activist investor correspondent. He has been covering U.S. biotechnology, pharmaceutical and health care companies. Barnes has been the FT’s leisure industries correspondent based in London. He covers hospitality, gambling, tourism, tobacco and cannabis companies. He previously covered health and science for the FT. He was awarded […]
Fontanella-Khan on how the FT is merging M&A with other coverage areas
Russell Sherman of the “Press Profiles” podcast interviewed Financial Times U.S. finance editor James Fontanella-Khan about his job and his career. “I never thought about being a finance person or finance editor in my life,” said Fontanella-Khan, who joined the FT nearly 20 years to focus on foreign coverage. With his new position, he said that the FT […]
