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Financial Times

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Financial Times
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FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Nikkei Inc.
EditorLionel Barber
Founded9 January 1888; 138 years ago (1888-01-09)
Political alignmentLiberal conservatism
Economic liberalism
HeadquartersBracken House, London, UK
CountryUnited Kingdom
Circulation185,747 (Print)
740.000 (Digital) (as of 2018)[1]
ISSN0307-1766
Websitewww.ft.com

The Financial Times (FT) is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London. It is printed in 24 cities around the world.[2][3] About 110 of its 475 journalists are outside the UK.

Along with FT.com, it has an average daily readership of 2.1 million people worldwide. FT.com has 4 million registered users and 250,000 digital subscribers, as well as 585,681 paying users.[4] The Financial Times in print format has an average daily circulation of three hundred and five thousand copies worldwide as of April 2012.[5]

It was started in 1888 by James Sheridan and Horatio Bottomley. The FT specialises in UK and international business and financial news. It is printed as a broadsheet on light salmon paper.

References

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  1. ↑ "Financial Times has reported in accordance with ABC's industry-agreed standards for National Newspapers". ABC.org.uk. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Map Archived 2011-10-18 at the Wayback Machine." London Borough of Southwark. Retrieved on 28 October 2009.
  3. ↑ London, Leeds, Liverpool, Dublin, Paris, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Milan, Madrid, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Atlanta, Miami, Washington, D.C., Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, Dubai, Johannesburg and Istanbul.
  4. ↑ "About Us". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 3 March 2011. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
  5. ↑ http://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates/17466031.pdf