I think we have every chance.If you didn't work in the media what would you do?Try for serious riches, although I'd probably find anything else much more boring than what I'm doing now.Who in the media do you most admire and why?Michael Bloomberg, for establishing a fantastic financial information business from nowhere and for giving the established players such as Reuters a run for their money - and the scare of their life.CV1979: Wins student journalist of the year award at Cambridge's Stop Press with Varsity.1980: Joins the Reuters graduate training course straight from Cambridge, working in their London, Brussels and Zurich bureaux.1983: Joins the FT's foreign staff. The Wall Street Journal is on the retreat whereas we're ascendant, and The New York Times's International Herald Tribune doesn't have such a strong franchise. I spent my teens listening to pirate radio - John Peel was an absolute must.What's the first medium you turn to in the mornings?Today. It's a very helpful start to the day.Do you consult any media sources during the working day?Principally the FT's website FT , but also CNN and BBC News 24.What is the best thing about your job?The fantastic people I get to work with, the best collection of journalists in the English language in the world. Lots of people were interested in pissing on it from a great height.And what's been your most embarrassing moment?The first issue of FTD, which had a lead story that was wrong - an interview got rewritten about 17 times and bent out of shape.At home, what do you tune in to?The News at 10pm, Question Time and not much else; I'm not a fan of terrestrial TV.

Every journalist's dream is to start a new newspaper, but nobody had ever done it before in a different country and a different language to their mother tongue. He likes tennis, film, food and wine, and is married with two young children. What inspired you to embark on a career in the media?My father, who was a journalist, and my discovery at school that I enjoyed writing. I was drawn to editing the school magazine, pretentious guff with little factual journalism and published a term late. I then had this fantasy that I was going into the theatre, and during my first term at university directed Pinter's The Lover. When I realised I wasn't any good I fell into the student newspaper, Stop Press With Varsity. We turned it into a screaming tabloid and covered some good stories.When you were 15 years old, which newspaper did your family get, and did you read it?The Guardian, and yes, I did.

My parents were - and are - classic middle-class lefties.And what were you favourite TV and radio programmes?The Old Grey Whistle Test, I'm a freak for contemporary music. As at the Standard, he helped me find my way, and stopped me from making one or two rather bad mistakes. But more than that he was consistently friendly.Extremely professional and never foul to his staff, Jeremy had a way to get the best out of people without making their lives a total nightmare, and made me realise this is important and possible.. Andrew Gowers, 47, is editor of the 'Financial Times'.