Financial Times
Financial Times
The FT’s worldwide network of journalists has provided authoritative coverage at moments of global significance from the ongoing crisis in the Middle East to the death of Alexei Navalny in Russia. The news coverage on ft.com comes in multiple formats, ensuring our readers have a breadth of content to choose from on the top stories of the day.
With news stories, live blogs, big reads and explainers, the FT has tirelessly covered all aspects of the Middle East crisis. Our reporters have worked in difficult circumstances to cover the hostages taken by Hamas, the humanitarian impact of the conflict in Gaza, the challenges the west now faces in stabilising the region, and much more.
Our visual and data teams have produced detailed stories including this investigation of extremist settlers in the West Bank.
In the aftermath of the death of Alexei Navalny, the FT reported on those risking arrest to mourn the opposition activist and his wife's vow to take on his struggle.
2024 has been a bumper year for elections, and the FT has led the way on balanced and informed coverage. We uncovered the freebies scandal that rocked Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party in the run-up to the UK election with a series of scoops.
When Labour went on to win a landslide after 14 years of Conservative government, the FT’s live blog ran throughout the night with the latest results from constituencies across the UK. Our reporting and analysis of the election was supplemented by a live-updating poll tracker.
Elsewhere, Alison Killing and Christopher Miller discovered that Ukrainian children, who had been abducted and taken to Russia in the early days of Putin’s 2022 invasion, have been put up for adoption by authorities. Using image recognition tools and public records, the FT identified and located four Ukrainian children on the Russian government-linked adoption website usynovite.ru.
Closer to home, the FT Weekend Magazine has run a number of superb long reads on the most pressing matters of our time, notably Tim Harford’s analysis of disinformation and how artificial intelligence is affecting democracy in our post-truth age.
To complement our written reporting, we are also deploying an ever-evolving range of digital journalism tools. Key to this has been our new Visual Storytelling team, which combines coding, design and reporting skills to tell the biggest stories in innovative ways. One of the team’s projects was a scrolly explainer on the brazen Arctic trip supplying Putin’s flagship energy scheme.
As summarised, the FT continues to break new ground by using new tools and story layouts to communicate with readers. Our excellent global reporting is paired with quality technical design on ft.com, meaning we have continued to grow over the past year as more people look for quality news from informed reporters.