FT Specialist hires Cuadra to cover insurance industry
Deanna Cuadra has been hired by FT Specialist to cover property and casualty insurance for P&C Specialist Commercial. Cuadra has been at Employee Benefit News since August 2021. She is a graduate of Columbia University.
FT’s Clover moves to London to cover security and defense
Financial Times correspondent Charles Clover has moved to London to cover the security and defense beat. He spent the last decade in Beijing for the publication. Clover has also worked in Baghdad and as the Middle East and Africa page editor for the FT. He was also previously the Moscow bureau chief. He was the 2011 British […]
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 […]
