Editing Financial Times (section)

==Content==
The ''FT'' is split into two sections. The first section covers domestic and international news, editorial commentary on politics and economics from ''FT'' journalists such as [[Martin Wolf]], [[Gillian Tett]] and [[Edward Luce]], and opinion pieces from globally renowned leaders, policymakers, academics and commentators.

The second section consists of financial data and news about companies and markets. Despite being generally regarded as primarily a financial newspaper, it does also contain TV listings, weather and other more informal articles. In 2021 and 2022, the outlet began focusing more on the cryptocurrency industry, launching a Digital Assets Dashboard, publishing multi-asset crypto indexes, starting a Cryptofinance newsletter dedicated to digital assets, and recruiting more journalists to cover the sector.<ref>{{cite web |last=Silvera |first=Ian |title=Inside the FT's crypto plans |url=https://www.news-future.com/p/inside-the-fts-crypto-plans |access-date=12 March 2022 |website=www.news-future.com |archive-date=13 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220313111109/https://www.news-future.com/p/inside-the-fts-crypto-plans |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Granger">{{cite news |last=Granger |first=Jacob |date=28 July 2022 |title=The FT launches cryptofinance section and newsletter following reader demand |work=Journalism.co.uk |url=https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/the-ft-launches-cryptofinance-section-and-newsletter-following-reader-demand/s2/a950829/ |access-date=24 August 2022 |archive-date=19 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819201036/https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/the-ft-launches-cryptofinance-section-and-newsletter-following-reader-demand/s2/a950829/ |url-status=live }}</ref> About 110 of its 475 journalists are outside the United Kingdom.

===The ''Lex'' column===
The ''Lex'' column is a daily feature on the back page of the first section. It features analyses and opinions covering global economics and finance. The ''FT'' calls ''Lex'' its agenda-setting column. The column first appeared on Monday, 1 October 1945. The name may originally have stood for ''Lex Mercatoria'', a Latin expression meaning literally "merchant law". It was conceived by [[Hargreaves Parkinson]] for the ''Financial News'' in the 1930s, and moved to the ''Financial Times'' when the two merged.

''Lex'' boasts some distinguished alumni who have gone on to make careers in business and government—including [[Nigel Lawson]] (former Conservative [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]]), [[Richard Lambert]] ([[Confederation of British Industry|CBI]] director and former member of the [[Bank of England]]'s monetary policy committee), Martin Taylor (former chief executive of [[Barclays]]), John Makinson (chairman and chief executive of [[Penguin Random House|Penguin]]), John Gardiner (former chairman of [[Tesco]]), [[David Freud]] (former [[UBS]] banker and Labour adviser, now a Conservative peer), John Kingman (former head of [[UKFI]] and a banker at [[Rothschild & Co|Rothschild's]]), George Graham ([[Royal Bank of Scotland|RBS]] banker), [[Andrew Balls]] (head of European portfolio management at [[PIMCO]]) and [[Jo Johnson]] (former Conservative Member of Parliament [[Orpington (UK Parliament constituency)|for Orpington]]).<ref name="about_lex">{{cite web|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070903221825/http://www.ft.com/lex/about | archive-date = 3 September 2007 |url = http://www.ft.com/lex/about|title = About Lex|access-date =4 September 2007|work=Financial Times}}</ref>