The move by Japanese business media group Nikkei to buy the 127 year-old Financial Times newspaper (FT) underscores the fact that the publishing industry’s fortunes lie in going digital as it targets the millennial generation. The deal will also enable a foothold in the U.S. market for Nikkei, Asia’s largest independent media group that has thus far refrained from going global, according to experts. London-based education company Pearson, which owns the FT, announced the .3 billion sale last week, saying it planned to focus instead on its core business of “global education strategy.” “[A] major phenomenon in digital news [is] a tremendous focus on millennials,” said Ken Doctor, a news industry analyst and a contributor to Harvard University’s Nieman Journalism Lab. “This is bigger than a baby boom. You combine that with the business news world and you have millions of people who are young [and] getting into the business world.…