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Brooke Masters

US Managing Editor

​Brooke Masters is the US managing editor of the Financial Times. She oversees editorial operations in the US and the Americas from the regional headquarters in New York and writes a global business column.

Since joining the FT in 2006, she has held a variety of editing, reporting and commentary roles in both New York and London. Among them were US financial editor, opinion and analysis editor, companies editor and chief regulation correspondent. She spent the first part of her career at the Washington Post covering criminal justice, local politics and education.

Email Brooke Masters @brookeamasters  on X.com (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Wednesday, 7 January, 2026
    US politics & policy
    Watch out for America’s activist attorneys-general

    Top state lawyers are joining together to challenge Trump and rein in big business

    Oregon attorney-general Dan Rayfield speaks into a microphone at a town hall, standing near an American flag.
  • Tuesday, 30 December, 2025
    Financial services
    Year in a word: cockroaches

    Jamie Dimon’s deft summary of the bankruptcies that have rattled finance

    Montage of images of a cockroach against a background of a $100 bill and the word ‘cockroaches’ spelled out in tiles
  • Wednesday, 24 December, 2025
    US companies
    Subscription overload is exhausting Americans

    The battle for Warner Bros could be the last straw for cash-strapped viewers

    Illustration of the Netflix N logo with green dollar bills scattered over it
  • Friday, 5 December, 2025
    Swamp Notes podcast16 min listen
    Trump’s plan to give babies money

    The president wants to give newborns investment accounts. Now billionaires do, too.

  • Friday, 5 December, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    FT journalists on the books that help explain Washington today

    These books span philosophy, fiction and insider gossip — together, they help contextualise Washington at a tumultuous time

    A person lies on the grass reading a book, with the US Capitol dome blurred in the background.
  • Tuesday, 25 November, 2025
    US financial regulation
    Making IPOs great again has its pitfalls

    The US needs more public listings but the regulatory pendulum may be swinging too far

    Paul Atkins speaks on stage at the IIF annual membership meeting, gesturing with both hands raised.
  • Wednesday, 12 November, 2025
    US companies
    How the American dream turned out to be pay to play

    Big brands from Disney to American Express are profiting from economic divisions and making them wider

    Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland decorated with blue and pink banners and a ‘70’ emblem, with visitors walking towards the entrance
  • Wednesday, 29 October, 2025
    Private credit
    Deregulation will pour extra fuel on the private credit bonfire

    The Trump administration’s looser rules could breed more ‘cockroaches’ in the lending market

    A scene from ‘The Big Short’, depicting finance professionals arguing across a desk in an office
  • Tuesday, 7 October, 2025
    Financial services
    Goldman executive says retail rush into private assets is raising risks

    Fund managers are under pressure to deploy capital quickly and could buy bad assets

    Marc Nachmann
  • Thursday, 25 September, 2025
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    We the People — Jill Lepore on why Americans have got their constitution all wrong

    The Harvard historian tells the story of the US’s foundational document — and why it was always meant to be amended

    A partial view of the US Constitution’s preamble with ‘We the People’ visible, set against a backdrop of the American flag.
  • Wednesday, 17 September, 2025
    US politics & policy
    Trump’s quarterly reporting move is the wrong idea at the wrong time

    These disclosures are no passing regulatory fad but a bedrock of US markets

    Stacks of large paper documents bundled with binder clips and string, with colourful folders and dividers visible
  • Friday, 12 September, 2025
    Swamp Notes podcast18 min listen
    How the Supreme Court can change the course of Trump’s presidency

    The US high court could constrain the president’s controversial policies. Will it?

  • Tuesday, 9 September, 2025
    Political Fix podcast32 min listen
    Bonus ep: How the UK is navigating the Trump era

    Have US and UK relations become any less 'special' under Trump?

  • Friday, 29 August, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    Will the Supreme Court stand up to Trump?

    The top court may be the only thing standing between the US president and total control of the government’s levers of power

    Premium content
    A crowd of birthright citizenship supporters holds protest signs outside the US Supreme Court as justices hear a Trump administration challenge.
  • Thursday, 28 August, 2025
    Unhedged Podcast20 min listen
    The people’s chip manufacturer

    President Trump’s stake in Intel increases the government’s role in the economy

  • Wednesday, 27 August, 2025
    Weight Watchers International Inc
    Can WeightWatchers stay relevant when everyone is on diet drugs?

    GLP-1 medications could be the group’s death knell — or grant it a new lease on life

    Two WeightWatchers camp participants stand waist-deep in a pool, wearing swimsuits.
  • Monday, 18 August, 2025
    US companies
    The boss is back

    As AI bites and job cuts surge, employees are losing ground — for now

    Matt Kenyon illustration of three office workers pulling a rope on one side while a giant hands in suit are pulling it on the other side.
  • Saturday, 16 August, 2025
    Swamp Notes podcast16 min listen
    Trump opens retirement to crypto

    The US president handed crypto and private equity a retirement account victory

  • Wednesday, 13 August, 2025
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The Gods of New York — four fraught years that transformed the Big Apple

    A compelling portrait of the city argues that the ‘gladiatorial arena’ of egos in the late 1980s fractured its promise of a better life

  • Thursday, 31 July, 2025
    ReviewHistory books
    The Girl in the Middle — the untold story of a Native American female

    Historian Martha Sandweiss turns detective in a quest to identify a mystery woman surrounded by white male colonisers

    A black-and-white photograph shows a Native American female of short stature, dressed in a full-length shawl, standing in a field flanked on both sides by six tall men in dark coats and uniforms
  • Wednesday, 23 July, 2025
    US politics & policy
    Coca-Cola gets roped into making America healthy again

    Trump’s pressure on food and drink manufacturing raises questions of fairness and predictability

    Exhibits in the World of Coca-Cola museum in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Retail sector
    Lululemon vs Costco: the fashion copycat fight

    The athleisure group is challenging public enthusiasm for ‘dupe’ products

    Lululemon Scuba Oversized Half-Zip Hoodie, left,  and the Costco Danskin Ladies Half-Zip Hoodie
  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    A Supreme Court decision that strengthens presidential power

    Trump says last week’s ruling in the birthright citizenship case is a ‘monumental victory’ for his administration — he might be right

    Premium content
  • Monday, 16 June, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    Will the courts rain on Trump’s parade?

    Judges, not protesters, have the best chance of reining in the US president’s authoritarian impulses

    Premium content
  • Wednesday, 11 June, 2025
    Executive Pay
    Pay, perks and CEO prerogatives

    Reducing disclosure of C-suite packages under the guise of cutting red tape carries risks

    David Zaslav
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