It didn’t take long for the ink to dry on a relatively rich Financial Times buy-out offer before the new owner decided to adjust the employee benefits.
Nikkei doesn’t finalize the purchase of the Financial Times until February, but it got to work on one issue very quickly
When news broke on July 23 that Nikkei purchased what is arguably one of the jewels of business journalism, paying £844m or near $1.3 billion, media watchers considered that the Washington Post sold to Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos for $250 million and they wondered if a successful media business model might be changed.
That answer came even before the deal to acquire the firm was finalized....


