FT launches new board game, Road to Riches
Financial Times has launched a new board game, Road to Riches. Players will be able to learn the basics of personal finance and contextualize about “talking money matters” with this fun yet competitive board game. The game, which is the brainchild of 19-year-old former FT intern and Manchester University student Krishan Puvvada, and former World […]
Executive editor at the FT talks prepping reporters for 2020
Lyndsey Jones, executive editor at the Financial Times talks about how the Financial Times is preparing its reporters of the 2020s. Jones talks about the various skills that journalists need to succeed and help their newsrooms thrive. She has not only led successful mergers of teams, delivering changes to working practices to maintain the gold […]
FT hires Ablan as US markets editor
Jennifer Ablan, long-time editor of U.S. investments at Reuters, is joining the FT as its U.S. markets editor starting October 1. Ablan will lead a team of four reporters covering the beat. She spent more than a decade at Reuters, overseeing coverage of the strategies of America’s biggest and most influential money managers, including billionaire […]
FT journalist Crooks departs after 20 years
Ed Crooks, the U.S. industry and energy editor at the Financial Times, has left the publication after 20 years. Crooks is joining Wood Mackenzie, an energy research consulting agency, as vice-chairman of energy in the Americas. Throughout his time at the FT, Crooks served as an economics editor. Crooks is a graduate of the University […]
Wigglesworth becomes FT’s global finance correspondent
Robin Wigglesworth is now the FT’s global finance correspondent. Wigglesworth has been with the FT since 2008, serving in a number of different roles including a Gulf correspondent in the UAE, a capital markets correspondent, deputy editor of FastFit, and the US markets editor. Prior to the FT, Wigglesworth worked as the Nordic economics and […]
