Ben Hall has been appointed political correspondent at the Financial Times. He is replacing Krishna Guha, who has won a place at Harvard as a Fulbright scholar. Hall joined the FT in 2000, and was ...

Stop press: end of an era as the FT’s own print site closes on facebook ... The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.

Publishing group Pearson has announced it is to sell the Financial Times Group to Japanese media firm Nikkei for £844m in cash. ... Shares in the group closed up more than 2% on the news.