Categories: OLD Media Moves

Financial Times also raises newsstand price

Following on the heels of The Wall Street Journal’s decision to raise its newsstand price, The Financial Times will do the same, reports Andrew Clark from The Guardian newspaper in London.

Clark wrote, “Already the most expensive dailies on newsagents’ shelves, the two papers are banking on publishing industry wisdom that readers will continue to stump up for specialist content even in an era of free-of-charge news on the internet.”

Later, he added, “In April, the FT redesigned its content under the slogan ‘we live in financial times’. Changes included a fresh typeface, an extra foreign news page and more features-style content in its Companies & Markets section.

“An FT spokeswoman said the cover price increase was the first for five years: ‘We have improved our content and design and successfully built a global operation with the world’s best journalists and editors. The price increase reflects these investments, which give our readers the quality international news and analysis they require.'”

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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.

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