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# Blogging Editorial Conferences
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2009/05/blogging_editorial_conferences/
- Published: 2009-05-06T11:55:13.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T14:30:36.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Blogging, conversation, engagement, financial times, FT.com, Journalism

[![FT Arena](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/05/ftarena-thumb-230x133-1298.png?resize=230%2C133)](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/05/ftarena.png?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)An e-mail dropped into my inbox last week, encouraging me to have a peek at [FT Arena](http://blogs.ft.com/arena/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), a blog on the Financial Times site that allows readers to join in a debate on the editorial *before it’s published*.

[Karl](http://fallingoffablog.typepad.com/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) is fond of sharing the story from his days as [editor of *Computer Weekly*](http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/editors-blog/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). They had a guest editor for one issue, who sat in on various editorial conferences, an eye-opening experience for him. Much of the material in those discussions never made it into the magazine – and that seemed like a loss to him.

I’ve long wanted to see us do a real “behind the scenes” blog, sharing the though-processes behind the creation of an issue with the readers – and involving them in that process. Arena does exactly that for a very specific section of the FT, and does it pretty well. At the moment comments on posts vary between [around 20](http://blogs.ft.com/arena/2009/04/30/martin-wolf-highly-progressive-income-taxes-are-a-folly/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) down to [none](http://blogs.ft.com/arena/2009/05/01/a-mighty-wide-topic/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). But it’s an interesting experiment, and I wonder how long it will before other titles follow suit.