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Pearson denies FT is for sale - to Thomson Reuters or anyone

Friday 10 February 2012

The Financial Times is not for sale, its owner Pearson said on Friday in a sharp slap-down of a report that Thomson Reuters was in "clear discussions" to buy the newspaper.

“The FT is a very valued and valuable part of Pearson. It is not for sale,” the publisher’s press office said in a Twitter post following the report in The Guardian.

The paper’s US media blogger Michael Wolff, in a report on Thursday,  said the rumour was raised over lunch with someone he described as “a senior Thomson Reuters executive”. ■

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