Financial Times to Merge Print, Web

From the AP:

LONDON — The Financial Times will merge its newspaper and Web editing desks, and may cut 50 staffers from its work force, owner Pearson PLC said Tuesday.

“The FT has long been a pioneer in forging an integrated online and print newsroom, with Web-first publishing and a unified editorial department,” the newspaper’s editor, Lionel Barber, said in a statement. “Now we must take the next step.”…

The Financial Times said it would create single newspaper/Web news desks, an interactive content team, and a production structure for integrating print and online publishing. It said it would also train writers to develop their multimedia skills … Pearson said the project was designed to create a “multi-media newsroom.”

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