Sam Joiner leads the visual storytelling team at the Financial Times — an interdisciplinary group of journalists combining data, design, coding and reporting skills. The team focuses on projects where visual elements play an essential role in communicating the story, working on everything from investigations to explainers across news and features.
In 2022 the team won a Press Gazette Future of Media Award for their coverage of the Ukraine war. They have also won multiple awards for The Climate Game.
Sam was previously head of data and digital storytelling at the Times and the Sunday Times.