Financial Times journalist Gautam Malkani will be taking over the paper's Creative Business section, AiM can reveal today. The paper made an internal announcement on Monday to the effect that he would be taking over from the previous section editor Carlos Grande.

The FT announced in December that its media supplement Creative Business would be dropped as a weekly pull-out and instead become a monthly pull-out supplement. Every week the paper will still carry a few pages dedicated to Creative Business, which Gautam will also look after, but they will be part of the paper as opposed to a stand-alone section.

He has been with the Financial Times for over 7 years now, having started in 1997 as a graduate trainee. Prior to that he studied social and political sciences at Cambridge University. He has been a UK companies reporter and done stints on the UK news desk in London as well as in the Washington bureau.

Gautam told AiM: "Creative Business has long been required reading for the media community in the UK and as the pages now appear in all four editions of the newspaper as well as on FT.com, there's an opportunity to make it a global forum as well."

The Creative Business pages, which will appear every tuesday in the paper, will also have a more international outlook. It covers media, marketing, advertising, PR and technology within businesses.

He starts with his new position on 7th February and will report to Simon Targett, the features editor.