Hello, I'm Lauren Laverne and this is the Desert Island Discs podcast from BBC Radio 4.
Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury,
that they'd want to take with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
For rights reasons, the music's shorter than on the original broadcast,
but you can find a version with longer music tracks on BBC Sounds.
Listeners will also get access to episodes 28 days earlier than everyone else.
I hope you enjoy listening.
My cast away this week is the journalist Rula Khalaf.
She's the editor of the Financial Times, august bible of city traders, business leaders and policy makers.
These are challenging times for traditional newspapers.
Advertising revenues falling and digital technology and social media have transformed how people consume news and information.
An increasingly fractured media landscape is also having an impact on the type of stories that cut through.
But she's no stranger to challenge.
She was born in Beirut and grew up during the height of the Lebanese Civil War.
Fascinated by the foreign correspondents
who stayed at the nearby Commodore Hotel, she set her heart
on becoming a journalist like them and moved to the US,
where she started her career at Forbes magazine in New York.
She got her first scoop exposing the business practices of Jordan Belfort, the so-called Wolf of Wall Street.
Do look out for the character based on her in Martin Scorsese's biopic.