The Daily Beast reports: As The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal bash each other, the Financial Times, led by its sharp, glamorous new U.S. editor, Gillian Tett, intends to become a status symbol of American business.
“I brought the English weather with me,” bemoans Gillian Tett, the new U.S. managing editor for the Financial Times, as she steps into the Peninsula Fives restaurant in Manhattan last Wednesday morning, dressed in a fuchsia raincoat accompanied by one of those umbrellas large enough to cover the width of a New York City sidewalk. She’s a few minutes late for our interview, which can be easily forgiven: She’d only arrived stateside two days prior, and her meeting with me was wedged in between an appearance on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann the night before, a day filled with internal meetings on the FT’s strategic direction, a jaunt down to Wall Street to report out a column due by the end of the week, and preparations for a speech.
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