Financial Times: Business News

I am a newsprint junky! I have been subscribing to and reading newspapers for over 50 years. I currently subscribe to five dailies including two locals, the NYT, WSJ, and the FT. Gradually, over time, the FT has become my first print read in the morning and my last on-line read at night. The FT provides unfiltered global breaking news and in-depth long form articles. The OpEd page columnists are thoughtful and provocative. FT Weekend is my guilty pleasure, having largely supplanted the Sunday NYT as my best read of the week. Keep up the great work!

I wasn’t sure I wanted to pay for another news source on top of NYT, WP, The Economist, The Atlantic and The New Yorker but in these crazy times I often find the FT publishes stories first and I find the analysis excellent . In particular I look for pieces by Gideon Rachman (excellent podcast too), Ed Luce and John Burn Murdoch . It was Murdoch data analysis on the Covid pandemic that first got me looking at the FT as a primary source on issues beyond economics and business . Some suggestions to the FT though: 1) sort out the marketing and content of your premium offering , I might try it but I’m not convinced at the moment. 2) use real voices for some articles , much much better than AI generated audio . 3) make it easier to search for articles and to look back at articles read history

This app and the FT site doesn’t allow paid subscribers who need to use these articles as sources for academic or scholarly research to save full text articles to organizers like Pocket or Evernote. As such the FT subscription is worthless. Other major news publications allow subscribers to save full text articles for future reference and use as source materials. A serious scholar or researcher needs to be able to keep full text articles from various publications on specialized topics in one folder or location. The way things ate at present, a subscriber has to log on to the FT app or website, then go to a different site, location or folder to compare or supplement the information in the FT article with that of articles from other publications like The Economist or Bloomberg. This is a huge nuisance indeed. New regulations are needed to stop FT from engaging in this monopolistic practice.