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Staff at the Financial Times said they would support strike action if it hadn’t closed its gender pay gap by 2020, adding pressure to management to address salary disparities.

“The Financial Times ought to be ashamed if it enters [2020] with anything less than pay equality,” staff said in a joint e-mailed statement after a meeting on Wednesday. “We would be prepared to support industrial action in pursuit of this goal should it be required.”

The threat of a strike comes after similar disclosures of pay inequalities at the British Broadcasting Corp. last month sparked a backlash and an open letter from at least 40 women calling for change. The average difference in pay between men and women at the FT, which is owned by Nikkei, is currently 13% and staff are increasingly concerned that senior managers are not taking it seriously, the statement said.

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Is Kathryn Bigelow the right filmmaker to tell the story of “Detroit,” about three horrifying deaths in 1967? She says doing nothing is not an answer.

Top marketers aim to reach a young, multicultural audience during this week’s Major League Soccer All-Star Game.

Numis’ long-serving head of media, Lornia Tilbian, is leaving, Grey has a new global CEO, while Pizza Hut has hired new marketers in the UK and Europe.

Nissan has reportedly moved the global advertising account for luxury car marque Infiniti from Crispin Porter & Bogusky to 72andSunny without calling a review.

This year’s shortlist of Digital Mavericks features entrepreneurs, brand-side digital marketers as well as agency technology specialists.

A survey of UK marketers has found that they are willing to pay up to £75,000 for a single post mentioning their brand by a Facebook celebrity influencer.

Eight episodes into the newsmagazine’s maiden run, NBC has pulled “Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly” off the air, replacing it with original episodes of “Dateline.”

The decision to end Kelly’s summer run, previously reported by The New York Post’s Page Six but little-noted beyond that, eliminates episodes that the network had put on its schedule for Aug. 6 and Aug. 13. People familiar with the situation said the first season of Kelly’s primetime show had been slated to end on Sept. 3 at the latest, in order to make way for the return of “Sunday Night Football,” but a fixed number of episodes was never set in stone.

After debuting on June 4 to 6.2 million viewers and a 1.2 rating in the news demo, the equivalent of around 1.44 million adults 25 to 54, Kelly’s Sunday night show struggled to retain an audience. A controversial broadcast featuring an interview with conservative conspiracy theorist Alex Jones delivered just 961,000 demographically-relevant live-same-day viewers, and subsequent ratings fell even further from there.

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