Courting popularity

Press Gazette teases us with a survey of 50 journalists and 1,000 members of the public, seeking their top business/finance journalists. The full results, they say, can only be found by subscribing to the magazine - let's see how long that lasts...

They have disclosed that Robert Peston of the BBC came first by a good distance in the weighted results, followed by Martin Lewis of Moneysavingexpert.com, Martin Wolf of the FT, Jeff Randall of Sky News (and still a bit at the Telegraph) and Gillian Tett, also of the FT. The Times had the most journalists in the top 50, with nine, followed by the Financial Times and the BBC – both on six. The BBC was named by the public as their most trusted source of news about business – taking 30 per cent of the vote. The FT was the favourite source of business news amongst journalists.