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It's basically WSJ with a somewhat more global perspective, and Euro-centric instead of US-centric.
by jxf 3y ago
It's basically WSJ with a somewhat more global perspective, and Euro-centric instead of US-centric.
- Andrex 3y agoIn my anecdotal experience, they're usually the first to scoop big Japanese business stories. (Some kind of Nikkei -> FT pipeline?) Edit- > It’s been owned by the Japanese company Nikkei, Inc. — an employee-owned company that publishes The Nikkei newspaper — since 2015. Okay that makes sense now, haha. Nikkei is employee-owned?! I need to look into this more!
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- alephnerd 3y ago> Nikkei is employee-owned?! I need to look into this more! It's a Kabushiki gaisha (株式会社). They aren't "employee-owned" in the progressive western sense (that's actually a "Cooperative") - it's just a joint stock company similar to McKinsey where employees can partake in limited profit sharing.
- Andrex 3y agoI'd love to adopt that myself, wonder if there's any good reading in English beyond the Wikipedia article...
- walthamstow 3y agoAnd much softer, more centrist politics. WSJ is every bit a Murdoch paper
- ghaff 3y agoThe op-ed pages were pretty conservative even pre-Murdoch. The FT is a lot like the WSJ but, as someone else commented, more global in perspective and with a more centrist editorial angle. (Probably more in line with The Economist but maybe even more so.)
- AdamN 3y agoWriting quality and critical thinking are double that of WSJ though.