The New European bought by consortium including ex-BBC boss
Investors in anti-Brexit weekly include Mark Thompson and former Financial Times editor Lionel Barber
December 2020
FT journalists stop pay talks over former editor's £1.9m pay
Staff angry at Lionel Barber’s 2019 package, which included £502,000 in lieu of notice
November 2020
Lionel Barber: 'I enjoyed access to thugs and the very rich. It was my job to understand power'
The former FT editor is publishing his diaries, but despite his amazing access to the great and not so great, they are remarkable for what they omit
October 2020
Book of the day
The Powerful and the Damned by Lionel Barber review – cosying up to power?
All too revealing of how the system works ... how the talented former chief of the FT, capitalism’s house journal, was in thrall to ‘movers and shakers’
November 2019
Roula Khalaf to replace Lionel Barber as Financial Times editor
Deputy editor to become FT’s first female editor after almost year-long recruitment process
May 2019
FT begins search for new editor to replace Lionel Barber
Barber, the UK’s longest-serving national newspaper editor, has held the post since 2005
April 2019
Financial Times thrives by focusing on subscriptions
Roy Greenslade
As it tops 1 million paying readers and moves back to its former home, the FT is looking to expand
September 2018
Indulging Steve Bannon is just a form of liberal narcissism
Nesrine Malik
White supremacy and fascist flirtations are not ideas that need to be ‘exposed’. We just need to fight them, says the Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
March 2018
FT editor appointed new chair of Tate galleries
Critics say appointment of Lionel Barber to prestigious arts role is potential conflict of interest
January 2017
Greenslade
Why Private Eye and the FT are right to oppose section 40
Roy Greenslade
Britain’s foremost satirical magazine and its leading business newspaper find common cause in their antagonism towards the imposition of an iniquitous law
August 2016
Peter Preston on press and broadcasting
Journalism and knighthoods don’t go. No sir
Peter Preston
Working journalists, including Lionel Barber, should steer clear of the honours system, for fear of the curse of the cronies
Greenslade
Daily Mail columnist launches misguided attack on the Financial Times
Roy Greenslade
But his assault on the newspaper for its anti-Brexit stance misses its mark: the headline smacks of xenophobia and the polemic lacks genuine evidence
FT editor to be honoured by France for 'positive role' in EU debate
Lionel Barber hastily deletes tweet revealing he has been offered country’s highest honour
July 2016
Media Monkey
Media Monkey’s Diary: Sarah Vine, FT party, and Theresa May’s spin doctor
Japanese absent from pink ’un’s guest list, Adam Boulton pursues the wrong Laura Kuenssberg and Michael Gove connections
December 2015
Greenslade
Kevin Maguire to deliver Hugh Cudlipp lecture in its new home
Daily Mirror’s associate editor joins an illustrious roll call of previous speakers
November 2015
Financial Times editor seeks to reassure over Nikkei sale
Lionel Barber says its ‘new owners, new partners, same FT’ as staff threaten to strike over proposed pension changes
September 2015
Greenslade
Financial Times staff back call for Nikkei guarantee of independence
Media Monkey
Media Monkey: Evgeny Lebedev, Lionel Barber and Tony Gallagher
July 2015
Media Monkey
Media Monkey: Gillian Tett, Lionel Barber, Jesse Norman, and Tony Hall
Turning Japanese: FT journalists have a yen to get on with new owners
