Categories: OLD Media Moves

FT's Tilt to cover emerging markets

Robert Andrews of PaidContent.org writes Friday about the Financial Times‘ new product called Tilt, which will cover emerging global markets.

Andrews writes, “Tilt will be based in New York but will staff bureau in regions including Latin America, the Middle East and Asia.

“The project is being led by some of the people who have made the FT’s Alphaville financial blog and community an award-winner – Paul Murphy (Alphaville’s editor) will be editor-in-chief, Alphaville correspondent Stacy-Marie Ishmael will be editor and Tom Brammar has been hired as managing director.

“Like Alphaville, Tilt will include community elements which the FT says will provide a platform for thinkers and businessfolk to share views. It’s not clear whether Tilt will operate on subscriptions; currently, Alphaville’s blog and community feature, though not its morning newsletter, are outside FT.com’s paywall.

“Now, it’s interesting why the Financial Times would take on a subject as significant as emerging markets and not simply make it part of its core proposition — FT.com.”

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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.