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60 seconds with…John McDermott
How long have you worked at the FT and what do you cover? I’ve worked at the FT for 18 months. I am the executive comment editor, meaning I edit the comment page and the A-List blog, all under the watchful eye of Alec Russell, comment and analysis editor. What is the best part of more …
Internet Week New York kicks off today with FT as official media partner
As a leader in digital publishing, the FT is proud to support Internet Week New York as an official media partner for the second consecutive year. The weeklong festival kicks off today with hundreds of web, media and technology focused events and discussions to continue through May 21. The festival will close with the 16th more …
FT.com section wins ‘Personal Finance Website of the Year’ as FT earns several other prizes and nominations
Over the past week, the Financial Times and FT.com have been honoured with the following awards and recognitions, praising everything from its personal finance journalism to its innovative audience measurement metrics: -FT.com’s Personal Finance section was awarded Personal Finance Website of the Year at the Headline Money Awards. In addition, the site’s Money Matters posts more …
Neil Collins joins roll call of FT Weekend columnists
FT Weekend is adding Neil Collins to its roster of regular contributors from this weekend, Saturday May 12. Collins, one of the most experienced financial journalists in the UK, will be giving FT Weekend readers his penetrating and acerbic take on the markets and UK business in a new ‘On London’ column. Already a popular weekly commentator more …
Financial Times launches Collateral Damage series
The Financial Times today launches Collateral Damage, a commentary series on monetary policy and central banks that will run for two weeks in the newspaper and on FT.com. Over the last five years, central banks have played a pivotal role in the shaping of the global financial crisis. The Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and more …
Financial Times and ProPublica win prestigious Overseas Press Club Award
The Overseas Press Club (OPC) of America honoured the Financial Times and ProPublica’s Tax Wars series with the 2011 ‘best online investigation’ prize in its annual awards ceremony in New York last night. OPC award judges “were impressed by this illuminating account of how banks took advantage of gaps in two countries’ tax laws and more …
FT’s Assanka rebrands as FT Labs
Assanka, the web and application development company acquired by the Financial Times in January 2012, has officially rebranded as FT Labs. The FT’s acquisition of Assanka supports the Financial Times’ strategy of delivering world class journalism anywhere, anytime, on any device, with new digital products and services that engage our busy readers. FT.com MD Rob more …
The FT launches a Careers App
As part of an ongoing commitment to social media, the Financial Times has launched a Careers app on Facebook. The careers App allows visitors to the Financial Times Facebook page to discover the latest vacancies from FT.com and share them with their chosen social networks or within Facebook itself. The FT HR team has been more …
Join live chat with Gillian Tett and producers of Frontline’s “Money, Power and Wall Street”
Gillian Tett, US managing editor, is a guest commentator in PBS Frontline’s “Money, Power and Wall Street,” a four-hour special report on the fiercest financial crisis since the Great Depression. The program airs tonight at 9:00 PM ET on PBS affiliates throughout the United States. Tomorrow, Gillian will be joined by Frontline producers Martin Smith more …
What is the Future of Publishing?
In San Francisco on May 1, 2012, an all-expert panel including Rob Grimshaw, MD of FT.com, will sit down to discuss the future of publishing and the role technology plays in this industry. Moderated by Peachpit; the panelists will answer questions such as: can anyone be a publisher? and is there still a role for more …