FT hires Freydefont as Lex writer
The Financial Times has hired Gaia Freydefont as a Lex writer. She has been a distressed debt reporter for Octus and an equity capital market reporter for GlobalCapital. Freydefont holds a bachelor’s degree from UCL.
FT is launching an AI newsletter
The Financial Times has launched “The AI Shift,” a weekly newsletter into how AI is reshaping work, productivity and society, written by chief data reporter John Burn-Murdoch and employment columnist Sarah O’Connor. The newsletter will be sent to FT premium subscribers at 12:30 p.m, UK time each Thursday. Sign up here. The first newsletter is […]
Economist, FT and Dow Jones licensing content for private LLMs
The Economist, the Financial Times and Dow Jones & Co. are licensing their content to private large language models, reports Jessica Davies of Digiday. Davies reports, “The Economist is among those to start licensing its content this way — having opened its API to corporate clients with their own data ring-fenced LLMs this August. “The Financial Times […]
FT seeks an “Unhedged” newsletter reporter
The Unhedged newsletter is looking for a new reporter in London as part of a global expansion. Unhedged is a daily markets and finance letter that has more than 60,000 subscribers worldwide. It gives a wry, opinionated, and highly analytical read on the latest news of stocks, bonds — and most every other market you […]
FT’s Wolf on how an impersonator appeared on social media
Andrew Deck of Nieman Lab writes about how Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf faced an impersonator on social media. Deck writes, “Increasingly frustrated, the FT reached out directly to Nick Clegg, then the president of global affairs at Meta, who Wolf knew in his past life as a British politician and member of the U.K. parliament. Within hours of […]
Politico hires FT’s Reiter to cover intersection of Wall Street and DC
Politico economic policy editor Mark McQuillan, managing editor for policy news Clea Benson and senior executive editor Alex Burns sent out the following on Wednesday morning: Dear All, Our stellar economic coverage has reached new heights this year with our pioneering focus on how Trump administration policies are rippling across industries and the economy, creating risks […]
FT names Salsbury its chief product and technology officer
The Financial Times announced that Rebecca Salsbury will be its chief product and technology officer beginning January 2026. She succeeds John Kundert. Salsbury, who joined the FT in 2023 as chief technology officer, has been instrumental in shaping and delivering the technology strategy and direction across all FT Group companies. In addition to her tenure […]
FT saw rise in revenue, profit in 2024
Global revenue at the Financial Times Group was above half-a-billion pounds for the second time in 2024, growing by 6% to £540m, reports Charlotte Tobitt of Press Gazette. Tobitt reports, “The publisher saw revenue growth in paid content and events, but advertising revenue was slightly down. “Global operating profit for the business newsbrand and its wider operations also […]
FT taps Stacey to cover leisure industries
The Financial Times has named Stephanie Stacey as its leisure correspondent, covering hospitality, gambling and tobacco companies. She has been on the markets team at the Financial Times to cover equities, bonds and currencies. Stacey has been a trainee at the FT since September. She previously worked at Tech Monitor and at Insider, both in London. She is a graduate […]
FT is shutting “The Next Web” conference
The Next Web, the annual Amsterdam tech conference bought by the Financial Times in 2019, is shutting down, reports Amy Lewin of Sifted. Lewin writes, “TNW, the company behind the event, alongside a coworking space and a digital media publication of the same name, plans to wind down its events and media business by the end of […]
