LONDON, Nov 12 — Roula Khalaf will become the first woman to edit the Financial Times in its 131-year history after Lionel Barber said he would step down in January. Khalaf served as deputy editor, foreign editor and Middle East editor during her more than two decades at the salmon-pink...
Tuesday, 12 Nov 2019 07:14 PM MYT
Khalaf served as deputy editor, foreign editor and Middle East editor during her more than two decades at the salmon-pink newspaper. In recent years she has also sought to increase the number of female readers and journalists at the title., the greatest news organisation in the world,” she said. Tsuneo Kita, chairman of Nikkei, said Khalaf had been selected for her sound judgment and integrity. “We look forward to working closely with her to deepen our global media alliance,” he said in a statement.
During his time he engineered a successful push into online subscription that protected the title as others battled plummeting advertising revenue, and managed the move to a new owner after Japan’s Nikkei bought thepassed the milestone of one million paying readers in 2019, with digital subscribers accounting for more than 75 per cent of total circulation.
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