Financial Times: Business News 4+

A aplicação está muito bem desenvolvida, fácil utilização e navegação.

No portfólio é incompreensível não dar para alterar a moeda, ou pelo menos sincronizar com a que está definida no website.
Deveria haver a possibilidade de gerir o mesmo tal como no site.

First some feedback on the app’s UI:

The last update is horrible, more blank space and less information, an headline and a short sentence now occupies twice the space, and the app now requires miles of scrolling to get anywhere. And you managed to keep all the infuriating flaws, good job. Even when the edition of the newspaper is set to Europe there isn’t an EU (or at the very least Europe) tab/section in the app’s main menu. I have to go to the World tab/section, scroll (now even more) until I find the Europe sub-section, and even then only a selection of 10 or so articles is available there at any time, which now occupies twice the space while giving no extra information, Who designed this? Who thought this is a good ideia? Give me submenus that allow me to see all the articles I want regarding a specific subsection, like Europe without having to scroll through the entire world, or luxury or financial with having to scroll through all other sectors.

Now regarding Europe:

How many articles have been published by the FT about Brexit? How many hours of podcasts? Yet, for a newspaper that likes to think of itself as being truly international and global, its perspective in all of those articles and podcasts is always extremely English and unforgivingly insular.

In all of those discussions about Europe, FT journalists and editors seem to completely forget two very important things: the first is that they too are supposed to be European, but let’s drop that false pretence, the FT journalists, like most British people, have always written in an extremely “us and them” way, “us” being the British, and “them” being Europe, so much so that I couldn’t call any of them European when they all seem to see themselves as being so separate and superior to “them”. In a FT podcast there is literal sniggering about europeans, an FT editor, a grown man sniggering because some Lord or Baroness or something like that made a joke about “telling them like it is anytime they go to Europe”, shameful.

The second thing FT journalists and editors are forgetting is the European perspective in all of those discussions about Europe. Nowhere is this more apparent than in articles and podcasts about Brexit, in which the FT completely forgets that Brexit is a discussion between the UK and Europe, which becomes particularly curious considering the size of the EU when compared to the UK. You write and talk about what is best for London and the UK, you hope for a good outcome for London as a financial centre even if it comes at a cost for Europe, you talk about the consequences of Brexit for the UK, you talk about what you seem to think are one sided decisions that your government can make regarding Brexit, completely ignoring “them”, the Europeans, or just ending by saying “but the Europeans might not go for this”. You seem to compare the integrity of the European Union and the Single Market to religious fanaticism (especially ironic considering your House of Lords has 26 Bishops) when it and its institutions are what keeps Europe united, talking, making decisions and compromises together. Where is Europe and Europeans in all of these hundreds of articles and hours of podcasts? Nowhere. Insular journalism, an English perspective above all else and everyone else to its very core, one that favours remaining in the EU, yes, but nationalistic and insular nevertheless.

A perfect example of this atitude towards Europe beyond Brexit is this: A summer or two ago there were huge wildfires in Southern Europe, forests burnt, people’s homes too, there were photos of cars carbonised on roads as people attempted to escape and failed. A great tragedy, both human, environmental and financial. On the FT app this amounted to a couple of uninterested articles, buried in the Europe sub-section of the World tab, which at any time only shows a few latest articles. Some months latter the same happened in California, and the FT reaction? Several articles on the front page, opinion pieces, calls to arms against climate change, heartfelt articles about the tragic human loss, analysis of the financial cost of it all. This time you would think the fires were raging in the editors’ backyards, their own homes gone in flames. You seem to think you are more American than you are European.

The FT needs to hire some of “them”, some Europeans, never mind their nationality, who can help the FT and its staff expand what they think of as “us”. If more people in the UK were capable of that we wouldn’t all be in this mess.

Sometimes I think only after a no deal brexit will the British appreciate that they used to be European, and that the UK used to be in Europe. Hopefully I’m wrong.

A decade long FT premium subscriber.