FT’s FundFire seeks a reporter
FundFire, part of the Financial Times, is recruiting a talented, motivated journalist to take on our endowments, foundations and investment consultants beat. In this role, you’ll get to follow the money and report on how large and influential institutional investors are putting their assets to work. You’ll get to cover how university endowments are navigating […]
FT tech reporter McGee to become contributor
Financial Times tech correspondent Patrick McGee is leaving full-time employment at the publication. He has three new contributor arrangements: After a decade-plus on staff with the FT, he’s shifting to become a features contributor; He will be a contributing writer at The Free Press, working under Mark Gimein who is leading a new Business and […]
Longtime FT editor Lamont is departing
James Lamont, former director of strategic partnerships and board director, will leave the Financial Times at the end of the year to become as chief executive of Norway’s DN Media Group. Lamont had a 25-year career at the FT during which time he was a management board director for a decade and Managing Editor for […]
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 […]
