Asia Companies and Markets Editor

The Financial Times is looking for a strong news editor to join our Asia team. Handling some of the biggest FT stories, destined for the home page and the front page, you will work with colleagues to manage our corporate, financial, technology and markets coverage out of the most populous and fastest growing part of the world. The role entails commissioning and editing a range of fascinating stories. From the integration of China’s massive capital flows into global markets to billionaire business tycoons in India and Southeast Asia to the chaebol of South Korea and the corporate behemoths of Japan, there are few stories in Asia that do not have a global impact. To write those stories, you will be able to call on a team of award-winning, world-class journalists spread from Australia to Pakistan. They have the contacts and the language skills to bring in scoops; your job will be to channel their energy to the most important subjects, edit their work into compelling copy, and commission analysis of the depth and subtlety that FT readers expect. Increasingly, we seek to hire and promote local reporters, which strengthens our local contacts and understanding but also requires our editors to support correspondents who are writing in their second language. Helping those reporters to develop their skills, and understand what makes a story for international readers, is an important part of the role.