Editing Financial Times (section)

==People==
In July 2006, the ''FT'' announced a "New Newsroom" project to integrate the newspaper more closely with FT.com. At the same time it announced plans to cut the editorial staff from 525 to 475. In August 2006 it announced that all the required job cuts had been achieved through voluntary layoffs. A number of former ''FT'' journalists have gone on to high-profile jobs in journalism, politics and business. [[Robert James Thomson|Robert Thomson]], previously the paper's US managing editor, was the editor of ''[[The Times]]'' and is now the chief executive of [[News Corporation]]. [[William Lewis (journalist)|Will Lewis]], a former New York correspondent and News Editor for the ''FT'', edited ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' and ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''. [[Dominic Lawson]] went on to become editor of the ''[[Sunday Telegraph]]'' until he was dismissed in 2005. [[Andrew Adonis]], a former education correspondent, became an adviser on education to the then British Prime Minister, [[Tony Blair]], and was given a job as an education minister and a seat in the [[House of Lords]] after the 2005 election. [[Ed Balls]] became chief economic adviser to the Treasury, working closely with [[Gordon Brown]], the [[chancellor of the exchequer]] (or finance minister), before being elected a Member of Parliament in 2005, and became [[Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families]] in July 2007. [[Bernard Gray]], a former defence correspondent and Lex columnist, was chief executive of the publishing company CMP before becoming chief executive of TSL Education, publisher of the ''[[Times Educational Supplement]]''. David Jones, at one time the ''FT''{{'}}s Night Editor, then became Head of IT. He was a key figure in the newspaper's transformation from hot metal to electronic composition and then onto full-page pagination in the 1990s. He went on to become Head of Technology for the Trinity Mirror Group.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}

Sir Geoffrey Owen was the editor of the ''Financial Times'' from 1981 to 1990. He joined the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the [[London School of Economics]] as Director of Business Policy in 1991 and was appointed Senior Fellow, Institute of Management, in 1997. He continues his work there.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/management/people/gowen.aspx |title=Directory of the Management Department at the London School of Economics |publisher=London School of Economics |date=30 June 2014 |access-date=15 July 2014 |archive-date=6 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106223036/http://www.lse.ac.uk/management/people/gowen.aspx }}</ref> During his tenure at the ''FT'' he had to deal with rapid technological change and issues related to it, for example repetitive strain injury (RSI), which affected dozens of ''FT'' journalists, reporters and staff in the late 1980s.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}