Peter Spiegel is US managing editor of the Financial Times. After studying at UPenn and the LSE, he spent five years as a staff writer for Forbes before moving into the defence and security brief for the FT, the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal. In 2010, he went back to the FT as bureau chief in Brussels, reporting on the Eurozone crisis and the origins of Brexit. In 2016, he was promoted to news editor. Last year Peter was promoted to US managing editor and moved to New York, where he runs the US bureau network and leads the news operation across all its platforms. In this in-depth interview, he talks about covering \u201cmoney in politics\u201d in a US presidential election year as the Democrats struggle to find a Trump-beater; maintaining a distinctive British voice under the ownership of Nikkei and Roula Khalaf\u2019s new editorship; and developing the paper\u2019s footprint in the US, described by former editor Lionel Barber as a \u201cland of expansion\u201d.
[Editor\u2019s note: this podcast was recorded in New York on 27th February 2020, before the onset of the coronavirus public health crisis.]