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FT.com To Build Blog Empire

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Following The New York Times and Wall Street Journal into the world of financial blogging, FT.com has fielded a team of big-time writers who will blog for the newspaper’s online operation.

Some of the paper’s most prominent columnists will join the FT.com’s blogging community and regularly post and supplement their views online through their own blogs. Tim Harford, ‘The Undercover Economist’, John Gapper, chief business commentator and Clive Crook, chief Washington columnist, will all post regularly on FT.com in the coming weeks. Willem Buiter’s popular ‘Maverecon’ blog has also moved to FT.com

FT claims that it is tearing up the online world. In the last 12 months, FT.com monthly unique users have grown by more than 70 per cent to 6.5 million. Page views have risen by 50 per cent to 43m while on-line revenues have risen by 40%.

At some point, all of these newspapers will simply shut down and turn into huge blogs.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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