Categories: OLD Media Moves

Print is still important to the Financial Times

John Ridding, CEO of the Financial Times Group, said his company’s print operations remains an integral part of its operation in an interview Thursday with CNBC.

“We have 629,000 people paying to read the FT across (all) channels. And that’s the highest it’s ever been in our 125-year history. More than half of that is digital, but print is still pretty important,” Ridding told CNBC on Thursday.

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.