{"id":38058,"date":"2023-11-07T17:21:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T17:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=38058"},"modified":"2023-11-07T17:21:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T17:21:31","slug":"ft-creates-visual-investigations-team-hires-alison-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=38058","title":{"rendered":"FT creates visual investigations team, hires Alison Killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press__single__content\">\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-38059\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Alison_Killing_FT_Linkedin_Profile_071123.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>The <em>Financial Times<\/em> (FT) has appointed architect and journalist Alison Killing as a senior visual investigations reporter, leading a newly created visual investigations team.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image for illustration: Alison Killing (Linkedin Profile)<\/em><\/h6>\n<h3><!--more--><\/h3>\n<p><em>TalkingBusinessNews<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>Reporting to visual stories editor Sam Joiner, the new unit combines investigative and visual storytelling skills and will focus on delivering agenda-setting public interest journalism. The FT\u2019s visual storytelling team has been recognised with industry awards for its coverage of the war in Ukraine, illicit oil smuggling into North Korea and launch of the The Climate Game.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"press__single__content\">\n<p>Killing is a licensed architect and investigative journalist who uses large datasets, open sources and spatial and visual techniques. In 2021 she was part of the team awarded the\u00a0Pulitzer Prize\u00a0for International Reporting for an investigation that uncovered a secret network of detention camps in Xinjiang, China.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"press__single__content\">\n<p>FT editor\u00a0Roula Khalaf\u00a0said: \u201cAlison has an outstanding track record reporting on stories of critical importance, and this team under Sam Joiner will bring new capabilities to the FT that will deliver more high-impact investigative visual journalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"press__single__content\">\n<p>Killing recently produced a series of films for the 2023 Venice Biennale based on the reporting process for the Xinjiang investigation. A\u00a0TED Senior Fellow, she has also written a\u00a0guide\u00a0for open source investigations in China for Bellingcat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"press__single__content\">\n<p>The new team will include graphics journalist\u00a0Peter Andringa, who has previously worked at the\u00a0<a>Washington Post<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a>Guardian<\/a>, and designer\u00a0Chris Campbell,\u00a0who worked as an infographics analyst at the International Criminal Court prior to joining the FT in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/talkingbiznews.com\/media-news\/ft-creates-visual-investigations-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Financial Times (FT) has appointed architect and journalist Alison Killing as a senior visual investigations reporter, leading a newly created visual investigations team. image for illustration: Alison Killing (Linkedin Profile)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38060,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38058\/revisions\/38060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}