A Financial Times columnist says she was warned by an advertiser about harming ‘relationships with advertisers’

A column in the Financial Times that made joke about Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s chief executive prompted an email from Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s chief marketing and communications officer Henry Gomez, FT columnist Lucy Kellaway says. In the email, Gomez said: “FT management should consider the impact of unacceptable biases on its relationships with advertisers.” Kellaway published an open response to Gomez, saying, “It is my editors’ steadfast refusal to consider the impact of stories on advertisers that makes us the decent newspaper we are.”