Today, the Financial Times announced its most comprehensive coverage of the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos to date. Complementing weekday and FT Weekend newspaper coverage in print, exhaustive coverage on FT.com at www.ft.com/davos will include online special reports, video coverage and guest bloggers including Sir Martin Sorrell and British foreign secretary David Miliband.

Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times, said: “Davos is the meeting for the people who make and influence decisions around the world – and that’s the FT’s audience. This year’s event is more important than ever given the current global context and our expert team of commentators and reporters will deliver comprehensive coverage in print and online throughout the week.”

Three FT special reports will cover the event, including ‘The World in 2009,’ ‘Davos Agenda’ and ‘Davos Insight.’ Content from all the reports will form part of the FT’s online coverage, featuring reporting from senior FT journalists including John Gapper, Martin Wolf, Gillian Tett and Gideon Rachman.

Editor Lionel Barber will host an FT executive dinner forum in partnership with HCL Technologies on the topic on collaborative partnerships on 27 January and co-host a breakfast panel debate at the Belvedere hotel to launch the Edelman Trust Barometer on 28 January.

Other features of the FT’s coverage include a dedicated Twitter feed that will update subscribers to all FT.com news updates which is available at www.twitter.com/ftdavos. The FT will also be bringing their latest marketing campaign featuring the image of a St Bernard dog to life at the event.

FT bloggers at Davos include:

John Gapper, FT associate editor and chief business commentator

Martin Wolf, FT chief economics commentator

Gideon Rachman, FT chief foreign affairs columnist

Gillian Tett, FT assistant editor

Lee Bollinger, Columbia University president

Sir Howard Davies, LSE head

Bruce Golden, partner at Accel Venture Capital

David Miliband, British foreign secretary

John Monks, general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation

Nandan Nilekani, Infosys co-chairman

Stephen Roach, chairman, Morgan Stanley Asia

Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP chief executive

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For further information, please contact:

Drew Benvie - Hotwire, +44 (0) 20 7608 4638 or ft.com@hotwirepr.com

Tom Glover, Financial Times, +44 (0)20 7775 6840 or tom.glover@ft.com

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