John Gapper
{{Short description|British writer and journalist (born 1959)}}
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John Gapper (born 31 May 1959) is a business columnist who writes a weekly column for the Financial Times.{{cite news|title=John Gapper|url=https://www.ft.com/john-gapper|newspaper=Financial Times|access-date=2024-02-18}} Formerly, he was the newspaper's chief business commentator and opinion and analysis editor. Gapper is also co-author with Nick Denton of All That Glitters: The Fall of Barings{{Cite book|title=All That Glitters: The Fall of Barings|last1=Gapper|first1=John|last2=Denton|first2=Nick|publisher=Hamish Hamilton|year=1996|isbn=978-0241136997|location=London}} and author of two novels, A Fatal Debt{{Cite book|title=A Fatal Debt|last=Gapper|first=John|publisher=Ballantine Books|year=2012|isbn=978-0345527899|location=New York}}{{cite news | title = Book World: Rosie Dastgir's 'A Small Fortune' and John Gapper's 'A Fatal Debt' | newspaper = The Washington Post | date = 2012-07-20 | first = Katherine | last = Powers| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/book-world-rosie-dastgirs-a-small-fortune-and-john-gappers-a-fatal-debt/2012/07/20/gJQA56isyW_story.html | access-date = 2015-06-26}} and The Ghost Shift.{{Cite book|title=The Ghost Shift|last=Gapper|first=John|publisher=Ballantine Books|year=2015|isbn=978-0345527929|location=New York|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/ghostshiftnovel0000gapp}}{{cite journal | title = 'The Ghost Shift', by John Gapper | journal = Financial Times | date = 2015-02-06 | first = David | last = Evans| url = http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8df2a3a4-ab05-11e4-81bc-00144feab7de.html | access-date = 2015-06-26}}
Education
Gapper was educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing and at Exeter College, Oxford where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He later became a Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund of New York, studying US education and job training at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Career
Gapper trained on the Mirror Group training scheme,{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/opinion/little-learning|title=A Little Learning {{!}} Oxford Today|website=www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk|access-date=2016-03-28}} working at the Tavistock Times. He then worked for the Daily Mirror, Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph before joining the Financial Times in 1987. He became in turn the Financial Times labour editor, banking editor and media editor and was then appointed assistant editor in charge of the comment page. Gapper became a columnist in 2003 and was based in New York between 2005 and 2012.
Books
- All That Glitters: The Fall of Barings
- How To Be A Rogue Trader{{Cite book|title=How to be a Rogue Trader|last=Gapper|first=John|publisher=Portfolio|year=2011|asin=B006CUFYTO}}
- A Fatal Debt
- The Ghost Shift
Awards
- Business commentator, Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards 2011{{cite web|url=http://www.commentawards.com/uploads/index_12_2438739997.pdf |title=The Comment Awards : Shortlist and Winners 2011 |website=Commentawards.com |access-date=2017-02-22}} and 2014.{{cite web|url=https://www.societyofeditors.org/soe-news/25-november-2014/Winners-of-The-Comment-Awards-2014-announced |title=Society of Editors, Fighting for media freedom |website=Societyofeditors.org |date=2014-11-25 |access-date=2017-02-22}}
- Gerald Loeb Award for commentary 2013.{{cite web|url=http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/gerald-loeb-awards/2013-loeb-award-winners-press-release |title=2013 Loeb Award Winners Press Release | UCLA Anderson School of Management |website=Anderson.ucla.edu |date=2013-06-25 |access-date=2017-02-22}}
- International commentary, Society of American Business Editors and Writers Awards 2014.{{cite web|url=https://sabew.org/2015/04/2014-bib-finalists-list/|title=2014 BIB Winner's list « SABEW|website=Sabew.org|access-date=2017-02-22}}
References
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External links
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- [https://www.ft.com/john-gapper John Gapper profile at Financial Times]
- [https://freakonomics.com/2011/12/what-makes-a-rogue-trader-tick-a-qa-with-ft-columnist-john-gapper/ What Makes a Rogue Trader Tick? - Freakonomics blog]
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Category:21st-century British novelists
Category:British male novelists
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Category:British business writers
Category:People educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing
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Category:21st-century British male writers
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