FT’s White wins Wiegold Prize
Financial Times reporter Alexandra White is receiving the Wiegold Prize in recognition of her talent for covering business topics. The prize honors the late Bloomberg Markets senior editor and 18-year veteran of The Wall Street Journal and is given by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism to an alumnus. After graduating from Wesleyan in 2016, […]
FT launches “Working It” newsletter
The Financial Times has launched “Working It,” a weekly newsletter overseen by work and careers editor Isabel Berwick. Podcast host Berwick will tackle a range of current and perennial workplace issues and “Working It” will serve audiences from senior managers leading hundreds to those starting out in their careers. “Working It” is the first joint […]
FT seeks an Asia companies and markets editor
The Financial Times is looking for a strong news editor to join our Asia team. Handling some of the biggest FT stories, destined for the home page and the front page, you will work with colleagues to manage our corporate, financial, technology and markets coverage out of the most populous and fastest growing part of […]
FT hires Quach to edit newsletter
The Financial Times has hired Georgina Quach to edit a politics newsletter. Quach is a British-Vietnamese journalist. In 2020, she was awarded the Scott Trust Bursary by the Guardian and George Weidenfeld Bursary by the International Journalists’ Programme. She was a Bloomberg Financial Journalism Diversity Fellow in June 2021, and was awarded the Murdoch Scholarship by Oxford […]
Wigglesworth appointed editor of FT Alphaville
Robin Wigglesworth has been named the new editor of Financial Times Alphaville, a source of market news for financial market professionals. Previously, he was a global finance correspondent covering investing, finance and markets, based in Oslo. Before that, he reported on U.S. stocks, bonds, commodities, foreign exchange, derivatives and asset management. He has also served […]
Financial Times launches app aimed at casual readers
The Financial Times has launched FT Edit, a streamlined app it hopes will attract an audience beyond its traditional, professional readers, reports Bron Maher of the Press Gazette. Maher reports, “The app, which is the FT’s first major product launch in a decade, will provide a curated, daily selection of eight articles at 8am each weekday. At […]
Financial Times taps Jalabi as Middle East correspondent
Raya Jalabi has joined the Financial Times as Middle East correspondent. She will be based in Syria, focusing on Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. She comes from Reuters, where she worked as an Iraq correspondent and, most recently, as a senior correspondent. She was also a news editor on the U.S. and international news desks at […]
Financial Times appoints Smith newsletter editor
Sophia Smith has joined the Financial Times as a newsletter editor. Previously, she was an associate editor at Medium, where she also worked as an assistant editor and editorial producer. She was also an intern, assistant editor and then managing editor at Maker Media in Santa Rosa, California. Smith has a B.A. from the University […]
Munshi departs FT for Bloomberg
Bloomberg had tapped the Financial Times’ Neil Munshi as an editor based in Lagos. Munshi had been with the Financial Times for nearly 11 years, recently serving as West Africa correspondent, based in Lagos. He covered economics, politics, governance, business, security and culture with a focus on Nigeria. Before that, he was based in New […]
How the FT reached 1 million digital subscribers
Sara Guaglione interviewed John Slade, the chief commercial officer of the Financial Times, about its digital strategy. Here is an excerpt: On that note, it’s one thing to acquire 1 million subscribers and it’s another thing to retain them. What is the plan to stay at this threshold and continue to grow from here? What we’ve […]
