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FT’s CEO talks mobile subscribers and the importance of print

John Ridding, CEO of the Financial Times, talked about having the most paid subscribers in the newspaper’s 126-year history on CNN.

“Mobile for us is a game changer,” said Ridding. “It enables us to reach people immediately. It is 50 percent of our traffic.”

Ridding later added: “We believe in print. We think it is a very important part of our portfolio.”

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.