Financial Times readership continues to grow
The Financial Times continues to attract an increasing number of audience ‘eyeballs’ and paying customers for its content across all channels. The London-based business newspaper has a combined paid print and digital circulation of 597,015, up 3 percent from on the last quarter. It’s also got a combined print and online average daily readership of […]
Why is FT's Tilt behind a paywall?
Felix Salmon of Reuters critiques the new FT Tilt site, and he wonders why the Financial Times has put it behind a paywall. Salmon writes, “Murphy is asking his overstretched journalists (just one person for all of Latin America, for instance) to tell financial professionals something they don’t already know: that’s a tall order. “The […]
FT Tilt officially launches
The Financial Times announced Monday the launch of FT Tilt, a premium online financial news and analysis service focused exclusively on the emerging world. It serves finance professionals who have a direct interest in these markets and business professionals who need a deeper understanding of the fast-growing regions. “Recent years have seen economic power shift—or […]
How FT Tilt will cover emerging markets
Robert Andrews of PaidContent.org interviewed Paul Murphy, the editor in chief of FT Tilt, a new site from the Financial Times covering emerging market economies. Andrews writes, “Papers like the FT already cover emerging-markets business. But Murphy wants to go deeper: ‘We have to be respectful of how well informed and intelligent our readers are. […]
Top business journalism events of 2010
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Here are Talking Biz News’ top business journalism events for the year 2010: 10. Ad revenue returns to business magazines. After suffering two years of declines in advertising revenue and advertising pages, the third quarter of 2010 saw the 14 business magazines report a 7.9 percent increase in advertising revenue and […]
Buy lunch with an FT editor
The Financial Times is auctioning off lunches with some of its editors and writers to raise money for charity, and it’s interesting to see the price that some of them are fetching. Lunch with Gillian Tett, the managing editor of the U.S. edition of the business newspaper, has a current bid of $850. However, editor […]
WSJ winning the battle of breaking M&A stories
Nick Summers of the New York Observer reports Thursday about some data he received from a Wall Street Journal reporter that shows that The Journal continues to break most of the merger & acquisition stories in the business media. Summers writes, “If accurate, they make a convincing case that despite Mr. Murdoch’s influences, the Journal […]
CNBC hires two new reporters
Business news channel CNBC announced Tuesday that Kayla Tausche and Margaret Popper will join the network. Tausche will be a general assignment reporter covering corporate finance and deals, and Popper will be a senior producer helping oversee the network’s banking and finance coverage. Both will contribute to CNBC.com. “Covering banking and corporate finance is at the heart of what CNBC does best,” […]
FT now available on Bloomberg
The Financial Times and Bloomberg announced Monday that FT customers with a corporate license will be able to access Financial Times journalism via the Bloomberg terminal. The service, starting today, will be available to more than 295,000 Bloomberg subscribers. The Financial Times has more than 900 corporate customers who have purchased rights to read FT […]
FT's iPad app deemed success
John Ridding, the chief executive officer of the Financial Times, reports that the business newspaper’s iPad application has been downloaded 430,000 times. Dan Sabbagh of The Guardian writes, “However, only a handful of those downloading the app have opted to pay £200-a-year subscription, which applies to anybody wanting to view more than 10 articles a […]
