Pearson may turn a page at Penguin

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With the appointment of Pearson Finance Director John Makinson as new Penguin Group chairman, parent media group Pearson PLC is placing a new focus on the consumer-publishing unit as part of Pearson's global strategy.

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Pearson promotes Gowers to editor of Financial Times

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Andrew Gowers has been named as the new editor of the Financial Times newspaper by Pearson PLC. Gowers is replacing Richard Lambert, an 18-year veteran with the Times.

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Pearson holds talks with Spiegel to sell half of FT Deutschland

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UK publishing firm Pearson PLC and German periodical publisher Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH are currently in talks regarding the sale of Pearson's 50% share in the Financial Times Deutschland to Spiegel-Verlag. The sale would effectively give control of FT Deutschland to Bertelsmann AG, as it owns a 75% majority stake in Gruner and Jahr, which in turn owns a 25.5% stake in Spiegel-Verlag.

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