Categories: OLD Media Moves

British Airways drops FT after critical coverage

British Airways has stopped offering the Financial Times to passengers in response to negative stories about it in the paper, reports James Walker of The Press Gazette.

Walker reports, “The FT revealed in today’s edition that it would no longer be available on BA flights, at airport lounges or gates after the airline made an ‘abrupt decision’ to end its partnership with the newspaper.

“BA has said it regularly reviews what is offered by its airline. It continues to offer the Daily Mail and Guardian newspapers to passengers.

“An FT source said BA had ‘dropped the FT because they don’t like our coverage of them’, adding: ‘It’s nothing to do with cost – it’s a reaction to the journalism. Plain and simple.

“‘There was a piece written about data security at a German call centre a few weeks back that seems to have been the trigger.'”

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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.