Pearson results show the demand for quality financial journalism

There are some encouraging signs for the top end of the journalism business with the release of Pearson's preliminary results this morning.

The group's website reports that

The Financial Times Group continued to achieve good growth - in particular at Interactive Data and Mergermarket - but FT Publishing saw a decline in advertising revenues (which now account for 4% of Pearson's sales).

The FT website saw growth of 9 per cent year on year and register users increased from approximately 150,000 at the end of 2007 to 966,000 by the end of last year.