Nikkei Buys Financial Times

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Jonathan Soble, Nikkei Vies for Global Clout by Splurging on Pink Trophy. New York Times, July 29, 2015.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/2 ... inancial-times.html
(“ 'The vast majority of the scoops are leaks,' [Otsuka] said. Companies expect positive coverage in return * * * Nikkei’s hunger for scoops, its critics say, does not extend to the kinds of articles that newspapers in other countries like best — those that expose serious wrongdoing. It is rarely the first to report a true corporate scandal”)

Note:
(a) Nikkei 日経  (formally known as The Nihon Keizai Shimbun 日本経済新聞; The roots of the Nikkei started with an in-house newspaper department of Mitsui & Company in 1876 when it started publication of Chūgai Bukka Shimpō 中外物価新報 [as 週刊]; Headquarters Tokyo)  Wikipedia

(b) Financial Times “was founded in 1888 by James Sheridan and Horatio Bottomley.”  Wikipedia
(i) In 1957 "Pearson purchases the Financial Times as a 'sound, conservative investment.' The deal includes 50% of The Economist [the latter continues to this date]."
(ii) Pearson PLC  (headquarters London; was founded by Samuel Pearson in 1844)  (PLC = public limited company: under UK law, similar to Limited)
(iii) Nikkei president Naotoshi OKADA 岡田 直敏, chairman Tsuneo KITA  喜多 恒雄

(c) "Yasunori SONE 曽根 泰教 , a media studies professor at Keio University"
(i) This 曽根 is the same as that part of the surname of former Japanese prime minister Yasuhiro NAKASONE 中曽根 康弘 (1918- ; PM 1982-1987)
(ii) name origin of the oldest university in Japan: Keiō  慶応
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiō
(年号)

(d) "Shōji OTSUKA 大塚将司, an award-winning Nikkei veteran who has waged public battles with its management and is no longer at the paper, was one of several who likened the acquisition to the purchase of Rockefeller Center by the Japanese property company Mitsubishi Estate at the height of Japan’s financial bubble in 1989.  'They’re just buying an aspiration,' Mr Otsuka said."
(e) "Nikkei started an English-language weekly, The Nikkei Asian Review, in 2013 * * * and runs one of Japan’s major think tanks, the Japan Center for Economic Research 日本経済研究センター [katakana for 'center']."

The title of Nikkei Asian Review has no kanji, whichat most is referred to by katakana ニッケイ・アジア・レビュー.

(f) "At a news conference on Friday, Mr Okada acknowledged that Nikkei was 'slow out of the blocks' on what was perhaps the most notorious recent example: coverage of a $1.7 billion accounting fraud at the Japanese camera maker Olympus four years ago [Financial Times broke the news]."
(i) out of the blocks: from or at a starting position/ the beginning
(ii) The "blocks" (always plural) refers to starting blocks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starting_blocks