Discussing where business journalism is headed
The Charlie Rose Show recently discussed financial journalism. Among his guests were Josh Brown, CEO of Ritholtz Asset Management and founder of The Reformed Broker; Joe Weisenthal of Bloomberg News; Felix Salmon, editor at Fusion; and Megan Murphy of Fast FT.
FT plans changes in 2015 to produce more multimedia
The Financial Times is planning “big changes” in the newsroom for 2015 as its journalists “increasingly think in digital terms rather than putting a print product first,” said editor Lionel Barber. Catalina Albeanu of Journalism.co.uk writes, “The structural changes in the newsroom are yet to be revealed but will reflect this brief and will be […]
Bloomberg hires FT’s M&A reporter Hammond
Ed Hammond, who covers mergers and acquisitions in the United States for the Financial Times, has been hired by Bloomberg News. His start date at his new job is still to be determined. Hammond has been covering M&A for about a year. He previously worked for the business newspaper in London as its property correspondent. […]
FirstFT newsletter aims to get readers to buy FT content
Ricardo Bilton of Digiday looks at how some media companies use newsletters to boost readership and revenue, and examines the new FirstFT launched by the Financial Times. Bilton writes: The pitch: Aimed at global decision-makers, FirstFT is a morning briefing that details the most important news in global finance, policy and politics. The content mix: […]
Financial Times launches FastFT
Financial Times launched Monday a free email service called FirstFT that includes the FT’s daily top picks of global news, comment and analysis from around the web. Produced by a new editorial team, led by the FT’s new head of aggregation Andrew Jack, the service spans multiple time zones to ensure readers in all regions […]
BuzzFeed hires FT’s Ishmael
BuzzFeed announced Friday that it’s hired Stacy-Marie Ishmael from the Financial Times to lead the editorial side of the BuzzFeed News application, reports Caroline O’Donovan of Nieman Journalism Lab. O’Donovan writes, “Ishmael is currently vice president of communities at the FT. She was one of the creators of the now-defunct FT Tilt and the early financial blog […]
WSJ, FT must cut stakes in Russian biz paper by end of 2016
The owners of the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times, co-founders of the Russian business newspaper Vedomosti, must cut or sell their 33 percent stakes by the end of 2016, according to a Bloomberg News report that notes that President Vladimir Putin signed a law limiting foreign holdings in media to 20 percent. Irina Reznik, […]
Financial Times planning FirstFT email product
The Financial Times is planning a new morning email product, still in beta, called FirstFT, reports Jeremy Barr of Capital New York. Barr writes, “The dummy newsletter, which can be viewed here, looks very much like a morning tip-sheet in the model that has been recently adopted by legacy media outlets like The New York […]
Establishing connections between business, politics, finance and economics
Edmund Lee of Re/code interviewed Financial Times editor in chief Lionel Barber about the paper’s plans in the United States and its growth. Here is an excerpt: Despite the fact that newspapers are declining, when it comes to business news, there are more outlets than ever. What sets the FT apart? We’re not an American […]
FT bets big on smart watches
Jessica Davies of The Drum writes about the Financial Times and its foray into distributing its content via smart watches in an interview with FT chief technology officer John O’Donovan. Davies writes, “The FT has explored wearable devices such as Google Glass, but has chosen the platform on which it believes it can provide value […]
