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Sam Joiner
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Visual Stories and Investigations Editor at the Financial Times. We use computational tools and traditional reporting to produce explainers, investigations and deep dives in visual formats.
Great working on this with @alisonkilling.bsky.social, Chris Campbell, @peter.andringa.me, @ian-bott.bsky.social, @sdbernard.bsky.social and @raydouglas.bsky.social.

Come for the reporting, stay for the largest map we‘ve ever built...
November 6, 2025 at 7:44 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...
October 31, 2025 at 10:21 AM
FREE TO PLAY: ⚽ Can you run a Premier League football club?
Step into the boardroom, navigate financial regulations and guide your team to glory in our new game.

👉 ft.com/football-game
August 23, 2025 at 6:10 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...
July 31, 2025 at 6:17 AM
New: Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry.

The largest domestic deportation operation in US history has seen detention companies’ market value surge. But FT analysis has identified facilities housing 100s more people than they are designed to hold.

👉 ft.com/us-detention-industry
July 16, 2025 at 6:26 AM
New: Inside Gaza’s 'death traps'. A US-backed scheme forces hungry Palestinians to trek kilometres for food aid. First-hand testimony, satellite imagery and verified video shed light on the dangerous journey from which many never return.

on.ft.com/4lKG6Go
July 14, 2025 at 7:27 AM
A new form of smuggling is funding Mexico’s cartels, with fuel from the US illegally imported in massive volumes. One in four vehicles in the country could be running on contraband fuel.

W/ @digitalcampbell.ft.com christine murray @peter.andringa.me @alisonkilling.bsky.social

👉 ft.com/mexico-fuel
June 11, 2025 at 7:06 AM
New: The government wants a technological revolution in healthcare. But from paper notes to inconsistent data sharing and dozens of IT systems, digitising the NHS will not be easy.

W/ @laurahughesft.bsky.social @upyorkshire.ft.com @carolinenevitt.bsky.social @emmalewis.ft.com

👉 on.ft.com/4dqrVDG
May 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
New: Inside Russia’s shadow war in the Baltics.

“It is impossible to drag an anchor for 150km without knowing you’re doing it”. We analysed suspected sabotage incidents in the Baltic Sea as European nations prepare themselves for a longer-term confrontation with Moscow.

👉 ft.com/baltic-sea
March 10, 2025 at 8:53 AM
NEW: Russia uses civilians as ‘target practice’ for killer drones.

Kherson’s residents have been, since midsummer, the target of an experiment without precedent in modern European warfare: a concerted campaign to empty a city by stalking its population with drones.

Free to read: on.ft.com/3Vohxoa
December 4, 2024 at 8:12 AM
The killer machines, sometimes by the swarm, hover above homes, buzz into buildings and chase people down streets in their cars, riding bikes or simply on foot. Targets are not soldiers or tanks, but civilian life.
December 4, 2024 at 7:53 AM
NEW: Are the robots finally coming?

In our latest visual story, @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social @upyorkshire.bsky.social @samlearner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social @peter.andringa.me @carolinenevitt.bsky.social and Ian Bott explain how AI is powering a robotics revolution.

🤖 ft.com/ai-robots
November 20, 2024 at 7:11 AM
The demolitions clearing Israel’s ‘first belt’ in Lebanon. Satellite and video analysis shows thousands of structures have been destroyed in more than 30 villages within 3km of the border. At least 12 villages have had lines of buildings destroyed in controlled detonations.

👉 on.ft.com/4f84HSF
November 5, 2024 at 6:31 PM