Regularly starts to open Financial Times, expecting news (5)
I believe the answer is:
often
'regularly' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'starts to open financial times expecting news' is the wordplay.
'starts to' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letters of 'open financial times expecting news' is 'OFTEN'.
(Other definitions for often that I've seen before include "In many instances" , "Turn away" , "Commonly" , "Frequently, habitually" , "Frequently, at short intervals" .)