{"id":716,"date":"2015-09-13T23:46:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T03:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital.hbs.edu\/platform-digit\/submission\/ft-keeping-up-with-the-times\/"},"modified":"2015-09-13T23:47:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T03:47:59","slug":"ft-keeping-up-with-the-times","status":"publish","type":"hck-submission","link":"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-digit\/submission\/ft-keeping-up-with-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"FT: Keeping up with the times?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Financial Times (FT) is probably one of the most respected international newspapers, particularly in business circles where the paper provides extensive business, economic, financial and political coverage. The FT has managed to survive the threat of commoditization of news content from social media and news aggregators, and has managed to remain a relevant player in the news space, even with what may appear to be discouraging trends in terms of news consumption.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, the modern news consumer has a large number of sources of news content. Social media is an increasingly popular source for news, with users of the likes of Facebook and Twitter often obtaining their news by clicking through from a link on their newsfeed. Twitter, has itself become a medium for transmitting breaking news almost immediately, including through its use as a platform for citizen journalism, and is able to generate public opinion pretty quickly once a feed starts to trend. While a Tweet can hardly be characterized as having the same in-depth content as an analysis piece in the FT at 140 characters long, one could wonder whether there will still be space in the market for the FT in the not-so-distant future.<\/p>\n<p>This is further complicated by the emergence of news aggregators such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theskimm.com\">theSkimm<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailypnut.com\">Daily Pnut<\/a>, which provide a daily digest of the latest news from around the world, often linking to a wide range of sources for subscribers to read more. These news aggregators address the modern consumer\u2019s desire to get a condensed summary of the top news of the day that can be easily consumed in a short period of time. The FT\u2019s own daily \u2018Briefing\u2019 could be perceived as relatively dry, merely providing a headline and one line describing the article\u2019s content.<\/p>\n<p>Well, there is some genius in the FT\u2019s approach. Firstly, the newspaper creates immense value for its readers by providing high quality, financial and business-relevant content, which businessmen (and their expense accounts) will happily pay for. Yes, the digitally savvy generation of 20-somethings seems to have a penchant for free, bite-sized morsels of news content, as delivered in Tweets or by news aggregators. However, this is not necessarily the FT\u2019s current target market. Business leaders need to not only have information in their back pockets of what is going on in the world, they also need to have a handle on the implications thereof, which FT can address through the analyses, commentary and data it provides to paid subscribers. Furthermore, advertisers seem very willing to pay to get access to a captive audience of corporate FT subscribers. Therefore, FT is also able to capture significant value from subscriptions and from advertising.<\/p>\n<p>In a world in which many were predicting the death of the newspaper industry, the FT continues to be an incredibly strong brand and highly profitable. In terms of circulation, its digital subscriptions accounted for <a href=\"http:\/\/aboutus.ft.com\/2015\/02\/27\/financial-times-2014-results\/#axzz3lgFTtUcf\">70% of FT\u2019s total paying audience in 2014<\/a> \u2013 a testament to how FT\u00a0is a digital winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How FT has managed to remain relevant, even as the news becomes commoditized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[311,175,7],"class_list":["post-716","hck-submission","type-hck-submission","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ft","category-news","category-winner"],"connected_submission_link":"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-digit\/assignment\/digital-winners-and-losers\/","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FT: Keeping up with the times? - Digital Innovation and Transformation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-digit\/submission\/ft-keeping-up-with-the-times\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FT: Keeping up with the times? 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