Chris Campbell
@digitalcampbell.ft.com
Visual journalism, data viz and design for @financialtimes.com
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NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
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November 6, 2025 at 6:56 AM
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
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Blood on the streets of El Fasher: satellite images and videos capture new atrocities in Sudan as RSF forces take the city, marking a new chapter in the country’s ruinous civil war.
W/ William Wallis, @janatausch.bsky.social, @digitalcampbell.ft.com
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W/ William Wallis, @janatausch.bsky.social, @digitalcampbell.ft.com
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October 31, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Blood on the streets of El Fasher: satellite images and videos capture new atrocities in Sudan as RSF forces take the city, marking a new chapter in the country’s ruinous civil war.
W/ William Wallis, @janatausch.bsky.social, @digitalcampbell.ft.com
www.ft.com/content/f39c...
W/ William Wallis, @janatausch.bsky.social, @digitalcampbell.ft.com
www.ft.com/content/f39c...
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New: Inside the relentless race for AI capacity.
The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom, with hyperscalers clustering thousands of chips to train AI models. But critics question the environmental impact, soaring costs and whether it's all needed.
👉 ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...
The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom, with hyperscalers clustering thousands of chips to train AI models. But critics question the environmental impact, soaring costs and whether it's all needed.
👉 ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...
July 31, 2025 at 6:17 AM
New: Inside the relentless race for AI capacity.
The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom, with hyperscalers clustering thousands of chips to train AI models. But critics question the environmental impact, soaring costs and whether it's all needed.
👉 ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...
The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom, with hyperscalers clustering thousands of chips to train AI models. But critics question the environmental impact, soaring costs and whether it's all needed.
👉 ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...
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New: The American guns turning Haiti’s gangs into an army.
Caches of weapons — including sniper and military-style rifles — are being smuggled from Florida, enabling Haitian militias to challenge the country’s fragile government. The UN says gangs now outgun the police.
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Caches of weapons — including sniper and military-style rifles — are being smuggled from Florida, enabling Haitian militias to challenge the country’s fragile government. The UN says gangs now outgun the police.
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The American guns turning Haiti’s gangs into an army
Weapons smuggled from Florida are empowering the country’s militias and enabling them to challenge a fragile government
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July 30, 2025 at 6:20 AM
New: The American guns turning Haiti’s gangs into an army.
Caches of weapons — including sniper and military-style rifles — are being smuggled from Florida, enabling Haitian militias to challenge the country’s fragile government. The UN says gangs now outgun the police.
ig.ft.com/haiti-gangs/
Caches of weapons — including sniper and military-style rifles — are being smuggled from Florida, enabling Haitian militias to challenge the country’s fragile government. The UN says gangs now outgun the police.
ig.ft.com/haiti-gangs/
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NEW: Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ via @FT
GHF’s plan forces hungry Palestinians to trek miles to aid sites, often through the IDF’s active military areas. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured. This is how…
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GHF’s plan forces hungry Palestinians to trek miles to aid sites, often through the IDF’s active military areas. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured. This is how…
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Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’
[FREE TO READ] A US-backed scheme forces hungry Palestinians to trek kilometres for food aid. Many never make it back
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July 14, 2025 at 6:19 AM
NEW: Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ via @FT
GHF’s plan forces hungry Palestinians to trek miles to aid sites, often through the IDF’s active military areas. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured. This is how…
www.ft.com/content/6c74...
GHF’s plan forces hungry Palestinians to trek miles to aid sites, often through the IDF’s active military areas. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured. This is how…
www.ft.com/content/6c74...
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This is amazing work by @peter.andringa.me @digitalcampbell.ft.com @alisonkilling.bsky.social @samjoiner.bsky.social and Christine Murray
NEW - Mexico’s cartels have been setting up shop in a new business: smuggled fuel. Using satellite, customs, and maritime data, we identified misdeclared shipments of millions of barrels per year in a lucrative web that evades taxes and stretches across the country.
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How smuggled US fuel funds Mexico’s cartels
Sophisticated criminal networks are illegally importing huge volumes of fuel — and piling pressure on Mexico’s president
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June 11, 2025 at 7:30 AM
This is amazing work by @peter.andringa.me @digitalcampbell.ft.com @alisonkilling.bsky.social @samjoiner.bsky.social and Christine Murray
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Delighted to see our portfolio of investigations on Russia’s war in Ukraine shortlisted for @gijn.org Sigma Awards. The revelations contribute to mounting evidence of war crimes and show what can be achieved when forensic reporting is combined with visual storytelling.
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Announcing the Sigma Awards 2025 Shortlist
GIJN, the new home of the Sigma Awards, is proud to announce the 2025 shortlist for the best data journalism projects and portfolios in the past year.
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May 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Delighted to see our portfolio of investigations on Russia’s war in Ukraine shortlisted for @gijn.org Sigma Awards. The revelations contribute to mounting evidence of war crimes and show what can be achieved when forensic reporting is combined with visual storytelling.
gijn.org/stories/sigm...
gijn.org/stories/sigm...
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A new old post I still haven't included in my new website. Using Google Earth Engine to get tomorrow’s weather and creating an orthographic map with shadow effect, an idea from @digitalcampbell.ft.com. 🗺️
#rstats #dataviz #gee
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#rstats #dataviz #gee
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Tomorrow’s weather
A while back I saw Chris Campbell’s global maps from the Financial Times like in this Tweet and I thought I needed to do it in R. In this first post of 2023 we’ll see how we can access the GFS (Global...
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April 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
A new old post I still haven't included in my new website. Using Google Earth Engine to get tomorrow’s weather and creating an orthographic map with shadow effect, an idea from @digitalcampbell.ft.com. 🗺️
#rstats #dataviz #gee
dominicroye.github.io/blog/gfs-for...
#rstats #dataviz #gee
dominicroye.github.io/blog/gfs-for...
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NEW: Trump hopes that his tariffs will erode China’s surplus and allow US factories to compete. But the Chinese trade juggernaut is built on deep competitive advantages built up over decades and will not be easily dislodged
Our visual deep dive into China's trade dominance ig.ft.com/china-trade-...
Our visual deep dive into China's trade dominance ig.ft.com/china-trade-...
How China’s record trade surplus helped spark Trump’s tariff war
Beijing’s domination of global trade has led to a schism between the world’s two largest economies — and left many others worried about their industries being crushed by China’s export machine
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April 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
NEW: Trump hopes that his tariffs will erode China’s surplus and allow US factories to compete. But the Chinese trade juggernaut is built on deep competitive advantages built up over decades and will not be easily dislodged
Our visual deep dive into China's trade dominance ig.ft.com/china-trade-...
Our visual deep dive into China's trade dominance ig.ft.com/china-trade-...
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New: How China’s record trade surplus lit the fuse on Trump’s tariff war.
Our latest visual story shows how Beijing’s export machine conquered global trade — and what the world is doing to push back.
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Our latest visual story shows how Beijing’s export machine conquered global trade — and what the world is doing to push back.
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How China’s record trade surplus helped spark Trump’s tariff war
Beijing’s domination of global trade has led to a schism between the world’s two largest economies — and left many others worried about their industries being crushed by China’s export machine
ig.ft.com
April 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
New: How China’s record trade surplus lit the fuse on Trump’s tariff war.
Our latest visual story shows how Beijing’s export machine conquered global trade — and what the world is doing to push back.
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Our latest visual story shows how Beijing’s export machine conquered global trade — and what the world is doing to push back.
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NEW: As the Chinese government struggles to ease the real estate crisis, state owned developers have been buying up land. In Beijing, the state now accounts for 60% of new land sales, with few private developers left.
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February 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
NEW: As the Chinese government struggles to ease the real estate crisis, state owned developers have been buying up land. In Beijing, the state now accounts for 60% of new land sales, with few private developers left.
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New: Three decades after China liberalised its property market and ushered in a historic era of urbanisation, the state is back in force. Our latest visual investigation uses residential land sales to show that state-owned developers are propping up China’s housing sector.
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How the state is propping up China’s housing market
As the government struggles to ease a real estate crisis, state-owned developers have been buying up land
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February 25, 2025 at 8:58 AM
New: Three decades after China liberalised its property market and ushered in a historic era of urbanisation, the state is back in force. Our latest visual investigation uses residential land sales to show that state-owned developers are propping up China’s housing sector.
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ig.ft.com/china-proper...
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Russia is executing surrendered Ukrainian soldiers. My
@financialtimes.com doc with
@christopherjm.ft.com
and the visual investigations team looks at the evidence that these executions are Russian policy. Watch on YT www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Muw...
@financialtimes.com doc with
@christopherjm.ft.com
and the visual investigations team looks at the evidence that these executions are Russian policy. Watch on YT www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Muw...
'Film me!’: Russia's executions of Ukrainian POWs points to a policy | FT Film
YouTube video by Financial Times
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February 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Russia is executing surrendered Ukrainian soldiers. My
@financialtimes.com doc with
@christopherjm.ft.com
and the visual investigations team looks at the evidence that these executions are Russian policy. Watch on YT www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Muw...
@financialtimes.com doc with
@christopherjm.ft.com
and the visual investigations team looks at the evidence that these executions are Russian policy. Watch on YT www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Muw...
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New: Petrol cars are on the way out. Are you ready to go electric? By 2030 the UK government wants 80% of new cars to be EVs. In our latest visual story, we outline the changes needed to accelerate the transition.
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Petrol cars are on the way out. Are you ready to go electric?
By 2030 the UK government wants 80 per cent of new cars to be EVs. These are the changes needed to accelerate the transition
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January 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
New: Petrol cars are on the way out. Are you ready to go electric? By 2030 the UK government wants 80% of new cars to be EVs. In our latest visual story, we outline the changes needed to accelerate the transition.
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Remember Musk’s $1mn prizes ahead of the US election? It turns out the final winner worked for the Trump campaign — and was already traveling to its election-night party in West Palm Beach when he won.
Scoop, w/ Alex Rogers: on.ft.com/40tFSvu
Scoop, w/ Alex Rogers: on.ft.com/40tFSvu
Trump campaign worker won Elon Musk’s $1mn election raffle prize
US swing state voters were told to sign petition ‘in support of the constitution’ to get awards
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January 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Remember Musk’s $1mn prizes ahead of the US election? It turns out the final winner worked for the Trump campaign — and was already traveling to its election-night party in West Palm Beach when he won.
Scoop, w/ Alex Rogers: on.ft.com/40tFSvu
Scoop, w/ Alex Rogers: on.ft.com/40tFSvu
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NEW: Chinese companies have doubled their industrial footprint in Mexico in three years — a development that is emblematic of the closer ties that are poised to thrust Mexico into the centre of Trump’s trade war with Beijing.
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How China is setting up shop in Mexico
An increasingly close trade relationship is causing concern in Washington
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December 16, 2024 at 10:57 AM
NEW: Chinese companies have doubled their industrial footprint in Mexico in three years — a development that is emblematic of the closer ties that are poised to thrust Mexico into the centre of Trump’s trade war with Beijing.
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Also highly commended for Innovation of the Year are @FT team of @alisonkilling.bsky.social @christopherjm.bsky.social @peter.andringa.me Chris Campbell @samlearner.bsky.social & @samjoiner.bsky.social #BritishJournalismAwards
December 12, 2024 at 8:01 PM
Also highly commended for Innovation of the Year are @FT team of @alisonkilling.bsky.social @christopherjm.bsky.social @peter.andringa.me Chris Campbell @samlearner.bsky.social & @samjoiner.bsky.social #BritishJournalismAwards
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New: Inside the prison at the heart of Assad’s police state, Syrians search for the ghosts of loved ones that have haunted them since their enforced disappearances.
W/ Raya Jalabi reporting from Saydnaya & @alisonkilling.bsky.social @peter.andringa.me @digitalcampbell.bsky.social
on.ft.com/41s7W3A
W/ Raya Jalabi reporting from Saydnaya & @alisonkilling.bsky.social @peter.andringa.me @digitalcampbell.bsky.social
on.ft.com/41s7W3A
Inside the Syrian prison at the heart of Assad’s police state
[FREE TO READ] On the outskirts of Damascus, Saydnaya holds the secrets to the fate of thousands who disappeared under the dictator
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December 9, 2024 at 10:00 PM
New: Inside the prison at the heart of Assad’s police state, Syrians search for the ghosts of loved ones that have haunted them since their enforced disappearances.
W/ Raya Jalabi reporting from Saydnaya & @alisonkilling.bsky.social @peter.andringa.me @digitalcampbell.bsky.social
on.ft.com/41s7W3A
W/ Raya Jalabi reporting from Saydnaya & @alisonkilling.bsky.social @peter.andringa.me @digitalcampbell.bsky.social
on.ft.com/41s7W3A
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Let's make a more diverse osint starter pack - a 50/50 m/f split and a move away from westerners would be great. I've made a start (and yes, it's currently lots of men/westerners - help me shift the balance!) Can the community help me crowd source this?
go.bsky.app/36JpUBi
go.bsky.app/36JpUBi
November 23, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Let's make a more diverse osint starter pack - a 50/50 m/f split and a move away from westerners would be great. I've made a start (and yes, it's currently lots of men/westerners - help me shift the balance!) Can the community help me crowd source this?
go.bsky.app/36JpUBi
go.bsky.app/36JpUBi
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Ramy and his family used to live a comfortable middle class life in Gaza. After one year of war, his brother and sister have been killed and he lives with his heavily pregnant wife and his daughters in a makeshift tent. One family’s year in Gaza. ig.ft.com/gaza-one-year/
Inside one family’s journey through the Israel-Hamas war
More than 2mn people live in Gaza. Now almost all of them are seeking refuge
ig.ft.com
October 9, 2024 at 8:34 AM
Ramy and his family used to live a comfortable middle class life in Gaza. After one year of war, his brother and sister have been killed and he lives with his heavily pregnant wife and his daughters in a makeshift tent. One family’s year in Gaza. ig.ft.com/gaza-one-year/
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Can you mastermind a US presidential campaign?
Check out the FT's new election game - quick and deceptively simple (but actually really complicated and addictive)
ig.ft.com/us-election-...
Check out the FT's new election game - quick and deceptively simple (but actually really complicated and addictive)
ig.ft.com/us-election-...
Can you mastermind a US presidential campaign?
Compete for the White House against other readers in the Election Game
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September 25, 2024 at 10:57 AM
Can you mastermind a US presidential campaign?
Check out the FT's new election game - quick and deceptively simple (but actually really complicated and addictive)
ig.ft.com/us-election-...
Check out the FT's new election game - quick and deceptively simple (but actually really complicated and addictive)
ig.ft.com/us-election-...
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Congratulations to an anonymous FT reader who's spent all morning submitting 811 entries to our little game! (And yes, I've checked - they seem to all be real attempts, not a bot.)
ig.ft.com/us-election-...
ig.ft.com/us-election-...
Can you mastermind a US presidential campaign?
Compete for the White House against other readers in the Election Game
ig.ft.com
September 25, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Congratulations to an anonymous FT reader who's spent all morning submitting 811 entries to our little game! (And yes, I've checked - they seem to all be real attempts, not a bot.)
ig.ft.com/us-election-...
ig.ft.com/us-election-...