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Sarah ScireMarch 6, 2024

“Don’t expect help from the disruptors”: The FT’s chief executive on AI, “loyalist” readers, and its U.S. expansion

The FT has more than 1.4 million subscribers, including more than 1 million digital subscribers. About 20% are based in the United States.

Ken DoctorNovember 13, 2019

Newsonomics: CEO Mark Thompson on offering more and more New York Times (and charging more for it)

The “failing” New York Times’ news operation now employs more than 1,700 journalists, up nearly 50 percent from a decade ago. It has nearly 5 million subscribers, triple its print-era peak. Now it’s preparing to up the price.

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.

Ken DoctorJune 28, 2016

Newsonomics: The Financial Times’ CEO on trial subscriptions, the platform age, and living in luxury

“What you don’t want is the brands to disappear in some kind of homogenized platform. It’s not just that we don’t want it — I think readers don’t want it. They feel the degree of loyalty.”

Ken DoctorJuly 23, 2015

Newsonomics: Eight questions (and answers) about Nikkei’s surprise purchase of the FT

The quest for one of the world’s top news brands ended with an unexpected winner today. Here’s why.

Laura Hazard OwenJuly 23, 2015

Citing “an inflection point in global media,” Pearson sells the Financial Times to Nikkei

Pearson’s CEO: “What the FT really needed was to be part of an organization absolutely focused on journalism.”

Ken DoctorJuly 22, 2015

Newsonomics: How much is the Financial Times worth, and who might buy it?

It depends on whether you think the brighter future for news lies in readers or advertisers paying the bills. But then again, an FT sale may involve as much ego as accounting.

Ken DoctorFebruary 27, 2015

Newsonomics: The Financial Times triples its profits and swaps champagne flutes for martini glasses

The FT is a leader in crossing over from print — digital subscribers now make up 70 percent of its paying audience, a number that keeps growing.

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