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Sarah ScireFebruary 27, 2023

Meet the first-ever artificial intelligence editor at the Financial Times

“I want to make AI more understandable and accessible to our readers, so it doesn’t feel like magic but merely a tool that they can wield.”

At least we still have the creator econo … never mind

Joshua BentonAugust 5, 2020

It continues to be very good to be The New York Times

It now makes more revenue from digital than from print and continues to add new subscribers at a record pace. But its brutal COVID-driven drop in advertising will be echoed all across the industry.

On women in top jobs, the Financial Times continues to be an unexpected leader

Ken DoctorNovember 8, 2019

Newsonomics: Nikkei’s Tsuneo Kita: “Without the FT, it wouldn’t have been possible for us to transform ourselves as we have”

“On-the-ground collaboration, on-the-ground communication, on-the-ground exchange are all getting to be more like business as usual.”

Ken DoctorNovember 7, 2019

Newsonomics: How the Financial Times is building mini-brands within the global FT

“The point is they have personality. They have character. They’re engaging, and they have really inside stuff. So, they’re more than newsletters. They are mini-brands that have events and forums around them — but the newsletter is almost the spearhead.”

Ken DoctorNovember 6, 2019

Newsonomics: Four years in to their surprise marriage, what has the FT done for Nikkei, and vice versa?

The predicted culture clashes seem to have been mostly avoided, and they’re ready to expand their reach in Europe, Asia, and everywhere else.

Laura Hazard OwenDecember 5, 2018

Get rid of the content no one reads. Offer surprises and “candy.” And other tricks for retaining subscribers.

“I am not saying we shouldn’t do vegetables. But for the financial health of our organizations, the rewards are candy. If we’re not taking the vegetables and dipping them in caramel, we’re making some hard choices.”

Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 20, 2018

Here’s what the Financial Times is doing to get bossy man voice out of (okay, less prominent in) its opinion section

“She wrote a fabulous piece that did incredibly well and I think there’s no way on earth that (a) she would have submitted or (b) it would have run, before we started this stuff. It got more than double the usual number of pageviews for an opinion piece.”

Laura Hazard OwenApril 3, 2018

“If the Financial Times were a person, it would be a man.” Here’s how the paper is trying to change that.

Only 20 percent of the FT’s subscribers were women. Now the paper is doing a lot of things to change that.

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