FT wins Newspaper of the Year

The Financial Times was named newspaper of the year at last night's British Press Awards.

The award is well deserved: since the FT integrated its newsroom in 2006 and moved into a new one in 2007, it has been among the few British newspapers to increase its circulation, ad revenue and profits, and has now established itself as the place to go for financial news, comment and analysis.

As well as the top prize of newspaper of the year, the FT's Philip Stephens (not 'Stevens' as The Guardian reported it) was awarded political journalist of the year while Gillian Tett won business and finance journalist of the year.

The FT's online operations have also strengthened, with Alphaville becoming a popular resource for instant market commentary, a slew of Twitter feeds (here, here and here), and the Market's Live chat, which happens daily for an hour at 11am, has an increasing number of fans.


With these recent success stories, a promising future and as one of the few newspapers actually increasing its circulation and profit, it seems that we really do live in financial times.

UPDATE: There is a full list of the winners here.