FT reaches 250,000 digital subscribers

The number of paying digital subscribers to the Financial Times has broken the quarter of a million mark, an increase of more than 30 percent in the past year.

Of these, 100,000 are corporate subscriptions coming from more than 2,000 different licenses.

A growing number of businesses, including professional services and communications firms, as well as media owners, buy an FT corporate licence to provide their staff with instant access to Financial Times content and services. Clients include the Hay Group, the London Stock Exchange and Clifford Chance.

“In these uncertain economic times, both individuals and companies are turning to the Financial Times to bring world business to one place,” said Caspar de Bono, Financial Times’ managing director, B2B, in a statement. “Our digital licences enable companies to access FT journalism across 40 different technology solutions, each designed to increase productivity.”

Gary Spokes, knowledge & information manager, Hay Group, said in a statement: “The Financial Times is an invaluable partner for Hay Group. It aligns unrivalled insights into all business and market sectors with our expertise. All of which help us and our clients make better business decisions.”

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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.