Khalaf picked as first woman to edit Financial Times, Barber bows out
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LONDON (Reuters) - Roula Khalaf will become the first woman to edit the Financial Times in its 131-year history after Lionel Barber said he would step down in January. Khalaf served as deputy editor, foreign editor and Middle East editor during her more than two decades at the salmon-pink newspaper. In recent years she has also sought to increase the number of female readers and journalists at the title. "It's a great honour to be appointed editor of the FT, the greatest news organisation in the..