ACBJ strikes content deal with Financial Times

American City Business Journals has struck a deal with The Financial Times allowing it to use some of the FT’s content.

The arrangement allows Charlotte-based ACBJ to publish a few pieces of Financial Times content every day on the 40 local business journal sites.

“We will make this content available only to paid subscribers, which adds another perk to our subscription package,” said Jon Wile, vice president of content for ACBJ, in an email. “This content will only be on our sites, not in the printed weekly editions.”

ACBJ has print newspapers from Boston to Honolulu. It also operates online-only business news publications in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.

Japanese newspaper Nikkei acquired The Financial Times from London-based publisher Pearson PLC in 2015 for approximately $1.3 billion.

The FT has made it a goal of reaching 1 million subscribers, with the United States as a key market.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.