The Financial Times and The Economist have a shared history, though common ownership interest in the two publications ended in August of 2015. The fact that both papers are very high quality and have done well in the online era strikes me as not unrelated.

Though separate now (FT is owned by Nikkei of Japan, The Economist is now principally held by the Agnelli family, who founded Fiat, along with several other families including Cadbury, Layton, Rothschild, and Schroder.

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