In the summer of 2009, I modestly predicted that most major news organisations would be charging for content within 12 months. Charging, I argued, would not only plug the revenue gap; it would also help to re-establish value in their news product. — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
We don't need to update the paper through the night, so we don't need so many people working anti-social hours producing a newspaper for… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent. — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
In the summer of 2009, I modestly predicted that most major news organisations would be charging for content within 12 months. Charging, I argued,… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
While the web is very much the first draft of history, a rough-cut, it still has to be good journalism, well-sourced, reliable. Clearly, the… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
There is no conflict between best in British class and being a global newspaper. We are an international newspaper rooted in the City of… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. 'The Times', 'Guardian', 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Daily Mail' were all regular fixtures on the coffee… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
I walk into the office at Southwark Bridge every morning, and I have no idea what's going to happen. — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
By using our international network, utilising templates and thinking ahead with pre-planned pages that contain carefully selected relevant news, we can deliver stories that… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the night. Reporters spent days, sometimes weeks, on a single story. — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
All our reporters and editors now work seamlessly in print and online. This integration has transformed the way we work. I believe this is… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt. — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous reporting of the 'Post' and the 'New York… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
The Financial Times is pro-British membership of the European Union. We have taken that position for decades. But we are not starry-eyed about the… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
For the BBC and others, a free website is an obvious and relatively cheap addendum to their main purpose of streaming news and entertainment… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
