Editing Financial Times (section)

=== "Refreshed" ''FT'' ===
On 23 April 2007, the ''FT'' unveiled a "refreshed" version of the newspaper and introduced a new slogan, "We Live in Financial Times".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pearson.com/news/2007/april/financial-times-unveils-global-refresh.html?article=true |title=Financial Times unveils global refresh |publisher=Pearson |date=23 April 2007 |access-date=15 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015160110/http://www.pearson.com/news/2007/april/financial-times-unveils-global-refresh.html?article=true |archive-date=15 October 2013 }}</ref> In 2007 the ''FT'' pioneered a [[metered paywall]], which let visitors to its website read a limited number of free articles during any one month before asking them to pay.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.economist.com/node/18904178 |title=Special report: The news industry |newspaper=The Economist |date=7 July 2011 |access-date=15 October 2013 |archive-date=12 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612170302/https://www.economist.com/node/18904178 |url-status=live }}</ref> Four years later the ''FT'' launched its [[HTML5]] mobile internet app. Smartphones and tablets now drive 12% of subscriptions and 19% of traffic to FT.com.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://aboutus.ft.com/2012/04/12/ft-web-app-hits-two-million-users/ |title=FT Web App hits two million users |work=Financial Times |date=12 April 2012 |access-date=15 October 2013 |archive-date=13 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313053459/http://aboutus.ft.com/2012/04/12/ft-web-app-hits-two-million-users/ }}</ref> In 2012, the number of digital subscribers surpassed the circulation of the newspaper for the first time and the ''FT'' drew almost half of its revenue from subscriptions rather than advertising.<ref>{{cite web |last=Barber |first=Lionel |url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/6fce6e6e-711c-11e2-9d5c-00144feab49a.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/6fce6e6e-711c-11e2-9d5c-00144feab49a.html |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title= FT at 125: The world in focus |work=Financial Times |date=12 February 2013 |access-date=15 October 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://aboutus.ft.com/2013/01/03/gillian-tett-keynote-remarks-at-the-knight-bagehot-37th-anniversary-gala/ |title=Gillian Tett keynote remarks at the Knight-Bagehot 37th Anniversary Gala |work=Financial Times |date=3 January 2013 |access-date=15 October 2013 |archive-date=7 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307121537/http://aboutus.ft.com/2013/01/03/gillian-tett-keynote-remarks-at-the-knight-bagehot-37th-anniversary-gala/ }}</ref>

The ''FT'' has been available on [[Bloomberg Terminal]] since 2010<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pearson.com/news/2010/december/financial-times-now-available-on-bloomberg-professional.html?article=true |title=Financial Times now available on Bloomberg Professional |publisher=Pearson.com |date=6 December 2010 |access-date=15 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015160108/http://www.pearson.com/news/2010/december/financial-times-now-available-on-bloomberg-professional.html?article=true |archive-date=15 October 2013 }}</ref> and on the [[Wiser.org|Wisers]] platform since 2013.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://aboutus.ft.com/en-gb/announcements/financial-times-launches-on-wisers-services/ |title=Financial Times launches on Wisers services |website=Financial Times |date=6 May 2013 |access-date=19 July 2017 |archive-date=18 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018082357/https://aboutus.ft.com/en-gb/announcements/financial-times-launches-on-wisers-services/ |url-status=live }}</ref> From 2015, instead of the metered paywall on the website, visitors were given unlimited free access for one month, after which they needed to subscribe.<ref name="Guardian20190419"/><ref>{{cite news |title=Financial Times CEO John Ridding explains how to make people pay for media |first=Eric |last=Johnson |url=https://www.vox.com/2018/4/5/17200016/john-ridding-financial-times-ft-online-subscriptions-paywall-nikkei-peter-kafka-recode-media-podcast |newspaper=Recode.net |via=Vox |date=5 April 2018 |access-date=19 April 2020 |archive-date=1 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801043704/https://www.vox.com/2018/4/5/17200016/john-ridding-financial-times-ft-online-subscriptions-paywall-nikkei-peter-kafka-recode-media-podcast |url-status=live }}</ref> Pearson sold the Financial Times Group to [[Nikkei, Inc.]] for [[Pound sterling|£]]844 million ([[US$]]1.32 billion) in July 2015.<ref name="BBC20150723"/><ref name="Guardian20150724"/><ref name="Nikkei20151130"/>

In 2016, the ''Financial Times'' acquired a controlling stake in Alpha Grid, a London-based media company specialising in the development and production of quality branded content across a range of channels, including broadcast, video, digital, social and events.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://aboutus.ft.com/en-gb/announcements/ft-expands-content-marketing-studio-with-majority-stake-in-alpha-grid/|title=FT expands content marketing studio with majority stake in Alpha Grid|access-date=2 March 2018|archive-date=3 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180303105637/https://aboutus.ft.com/en-gb/announcements/ft-expands-content-marketing-studio-with-majority-stake-in-alpha-grid/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2018, the ''Financial Times'' acquired a controlling stake in [[Longitude Research|Longitude]], a specialist provider of [[thought leadership]] and research services to a multinational corporate and institutional client base.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://aboutus.ft.com/en-gb/announcements/financial-times-acquires-majority-stake-in-research-and-content-specialists-longitude/|title=Financial Times acquires majority stake in research and content specialists Longitude|access-date=2 March 2018|archive-date=2 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180302225357/https://aboutus.ft.com/en-gb/announcements/financial-times-acquires-majority-stake-in-research-and-content-specialists-longitude/|url-status=live}}</ref> This investment built on the ''Financial Times''{{'}} recent growth in several business areas, including branded content via the acquisition of Alpha Grid, and conferences and events through ''Financial Times Live'' and extends the ''FT''{{'s}} traditional commercial offering into a wider set of integrated services. In 2020, reporter Mark Di Stefano resigned from the ''Financial Times'' after hacking into [[Zoom (software)|Zoom]] calls at other media organisations including ''[[The Independent]]'' and the ''[[Evening Standard]]''.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}

In 2020, the retraction of an opinion piece by a reporter for the ''Financial Times'' generated a controversy about the editorial independence of the paper from outside political pressure. The controversy followed the withdrawal by the newspaper's editor of an opinion piece by ''FT''{{'s}} Brussels correspondent Mehreen Khan that was critical of French President [[Emmanuel Macron]]'s policy towards Muslim minorities in France. The piece was withdrawn from the ''FT'' website on the same day as its publication.<ref>{{cite news |last=Oborne |first=Peter |date=10 November 2020 |title=Freedom of speech in France extends to Macron's critics as well |url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/freedom-speech-france-extends-macron-critics |work=Middle East Eye |access-date=4 July 2021 |archive-date=9 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709184315/https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/freedom-speech-france-extends-macron-critics |url-status=live }}</ref> President Macron subsequently published a letter in the ''FT'' directly responding to the arguments of the original opinion piece, even though the original opinion piece was no longer available on the website of the newspaper.<ref>{{cite news |last=O'Leary |first=Naomi |date=11 November 2020 |title=Europe Letter: EU happy to celebrate or stigmatise Muslim immigrants when it suits agenda |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/macron-helps-propel-far-right-ideas-to-heart-of-europe-1.4406805 |newspaper=The Irish Times |access-date=4 July 2021 |archive-date=9 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210409201309/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/macron-helps-propel-far-right-ideas-to-heart-of-europe-1.4406805 |url-status=live }}</ref> The editor of the ''FT'', [[Roula Khalaf]], who took the decision to withdraw the initial article, acknowledged having been contacted by the [[Élysée Palace]] regarding the article, and defended her decision on the basis purely of several factual errors in the original piece by Mehreen Khan.<ref>{{cite AV media |people= Roula Khalaf and Amol Rajan |date=21 April 2021 |title= Roula Khalaf, editor of The Financial Times|medium= audio |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000v8ww |access-date= 4 July 2021 |time= 14:20 minutes in |work= BBC Sounds}}</ref>