How the FT, Economist use Facebook for video

Garrett Goodman of The Media Briefing writes about how the Financial Times and the Economist use Facebook to promote its video content. Goodman writes, “Before posting videos to Facebook, The Economist had the fairly standard practice amongst news outlets of publishing video on its own website and monetising through pre-roll advertising. Last summer however, Tom […]

FT names new editor for Chinese edition

The Financial Times has hired Feng Wang as editor-in-chief of FTChinese, effective in April. Feng Wang will oversee the newsroom and all editorial content on the Chinese language website. FT Chinese is 10 years old, with readership growing 10 percent year on year to 2.3 million registered users. “I am delighted to welcome Feng Wang […]

Examining the FT’s new digital strategy

Ken Doctor writes for Nieman Journalism Lab about the change in the paywall strategy for the Financial Times website. Doctor writes, “In the U.S. — which became its largest market a few years ago, surpassing the U.K. — FT.com ranks #44, with 804,000 uniques. Topping the comScore list are three big free business news sites […]

FT changing way it charges for online content

The Financial Times is ditching the metered charging model it pioneered and switching to an approach that will require users to pay to access most of the newspaper’s content online, write Jasper Jackson and John Plunkett of The Guardian. Jackson and Plunkett write, “Currently, readers can access up to three articles a month if they […]

Online subscribers top 500,000 for FT

The Financial Times reported Friday a sharp increase in profits in 2014, driven by growth in subscription and digital revenues and a record high circulation. The FT’s total circulation grew 10 percent year-on-year to nearly 720,000 across print and online. FT.com subscriptions grew 21 percent to almost 504,000, with digital now representing 70 percent of […]

FT’s MandateWire seeks reporter in New York

MandateWire is an institutional investment newswire service providing coverage of contract wins, losses and opportunities in the asset management industry. Over the last 12 years, MandateWire has built an unrivalled reputation among investment managers in North America, Europe and Asia as a provider of sales intelligence and analysis. It tracks the investment strategies and asset […]

FT starts daily economics newsletter

The Financial Times has added Tuesday a daily curated economics newsletter that will be sent to its subscribers. “Martin Sandbu’s Free Lunch” will provide a spirited take on the big economic questions of the day. The email newsletter, written by economist Martin Sandbu, will land in FT subscribers’ inboxes by lunchtime in Europe each weekday. […]

Alloway named executive editor of Bloomberg Markets

Joe Weisenthal, managing editor of Bloomberg Media’s markets coverage, sent the following announcement to the staff on Friday: I am thrilled to announce that Tracy Alloway is joining us as Executive Editor of Bloomberg Media’s markets coverage. Based in New York, she will oversee editorial content for markets on our new digital destination and work […]

FT columnist Johnson to join the Sunday Times

Luke Johnson, who has written a weekly column for the Financial Times for the past seven years, is leaving the business newspaper to write a weekly column for The Sunday Times beginning Feb. 1, the paper announced Wednesday. Johnson made his name as an entrepreneur with the expansion of Pizza Express. Subsequently he started, owned […]

FT makes changes to U.S. staff

The Financial Times has made a number of editorial appointments to its U.S. bureaus. The appointments in New York and Washington follow the return of Gillian Tett as U.S. managing editor, and include: Megan Murphy  has taken up the post of Washington bureau chief, leading the FT’s coverage of U.S. politics and policy and the […]