Financial Times' How to Spend It editor to step down
Date Posted: Thursday 21st March 2019
Gillian de Bono, editor of Financial Times' How to Spend It, has decided to step down from her role at the luxury magazine after a career spanning almost a quarter century. She will depart in summer to pursue a portfolio of interests in journalism and beyond.
Commenting on her decision to leave the FT, where she is also an assistant editor, Gillian de Bono said:
“There’s never an easy time for an editor to step down from a magazine she has loved to edit – or to leave a company she holds in such high regard. Many major talents have made invaluable contributions to the character and quality of How to Spend It over the past 25 years and I have forged some of the most extraordinarily gratifying relationships during this time. I hope at least some of these will continue as I look forward to new challenges that will take me in different directions and allow me to indulge more of my personal interests.”
Gillian joined the FT in 1994 to set up a magazine department following the success of a trial issue of How To Spend It for FT Weekend. Previously, she spent 13 years launching, relaunching and editing women’s glossy magazines. She spent her formative journalist years at the Consumers' Association, publishers of Which? Magazine.