Jo Ellison

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Jo Ellison
Born
Alma mater University of Edinburgh
Occupation Journalist
Employers
Known for How to Spend It
Spouse Enda Walsh
Children1
Website www.ft.com/jo-ellison OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Jo Ellison is editor of How to Spend It (HTSI), a weekly magazine of the newspaper Financial Times . [1] [2] [3]

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Education and early life

Born in Cambridge and raised between London and Dubai, Ellison studied history at the University of Edinburgh. [2]

Career

Ellison's journalism career began at the Irish Examiner before she became features editor of The Independent , writing arts reviews and shaping articles. In 2008 she pursued an opportunity at British Vogue , where she became features editor, and then features director, before taking over as fashion editor at the Financial Times from Vanessa Friedman who moved to The New York Times in 2014.[ citation needed ] She was the second-ever person to inhabit the role after the newspaper decided to invest in regular fashion coverage in 2002.[ citation needed ] In 2019, Financial Times announced Ellison would succeed longtime How to Spend It editor Gillian de Bono. [4]

Personal life

Ellison met her future husband, playwright Enda Walsh, [5] while working in a theatre in Edinburgh. She moved to Cork to live with him a year later. [6] They currently[ when? ] live together in Kilburn, London with their daughter. [7]

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References

  1. Ellison, Jo (2024). "The brassy brilliance of Angela Rayner: Forget the critics, the deputy prime minister is the most relatable MP I've ever seen". ft.com. London: Financial Times. By contrast, Rayner recalls every other sleep-deprived mother (or, like her, grandmother) trying to rouse some action on the PTA: her bronze eye shadow might be brassy, and her wacky lipstick smudgy, but by God she'll have you volunteering for a shift on that tombola at the school fete next weekend.
  2. 1 2 Anon (2018). "Jo Ellison: Deputy editor, FT Weekend & HTSI editor". ft.com. Financial Times. Archived from the original on 3 June 2018.
  3. Ellison, Jo (2017). Vogue: The Gown. ISBN   978-1840917642. OCLC   986847775.
  4. Anon (2019). "Financial Times appoints Jo Ellison as editor of How To Spend It". aboutus.ft.com. Archived from the original on 25 April 2021. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  5. "Jo Ellison is part of the BoF 500". businessoffashion.com. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  6. Walsh, Rachel Marie (24 September 2016). "A day in the life of Financial Times fashion editor Jo Ellison". irishexaminer.com. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  7. Curtis, Nick (8 August 2018). "Enda Walsh on his latest opera, The Second Violinist". standard.co.uk. Evening Standard . Retrieved 16 November 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)