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Peter Spiegel​ is US managing editor of the Financial Times, overseeing the media group's editorial operations in the US and the Americas from its regional headquarters in New York. In the role, Peter leads the news organisation’s US expansion strategy, which was launched in mid-2019. Since Peter took over editorial operations in the US in April 2019, the FT has secured five Gerald Loeb Awards, the highest honour in American business journalism.
Peter moved to New York after spending three years as news editor in London, where he oversaw the FT’s daily news operation both in print and online. During his tenure as news editor, the FT won 13 British Press Awards, the UK’s highest journalism prize, including news website of the year in 2017 and newspaper of the year in 2018 – only the second time the FT has secured British journalism's highest honour in its 130-year history.
Peter took over as head of the FT's London newsroom after six years as Brussels bureau chief, where he headed the paper's coverage of the eurozone crisis. While in Brussels, Peter and his team won back-to-back Society of American Business Writers and Editors awards for their coverage of the eurozone debt crisis.