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Whoa
@FTMag
- supplement of the year & scoop of the year at the
#PressAwards
+ many other fantastic wins for the
@FT
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Our new
@TIME
cover is
#GameofThrones
like you've never seen it, with a masterful 20-page story by
@DPD_
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We're looking for pitches up and down the magazine!
Here's one-page guide to exactly what kinds of pitches make it into
@ftmag
. (You may have to request access.)
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For
@FTMag
,
@helenwarrell
spent months with MI6’s highest-ranking female spies - the first time SIS officers have ever gone on the record. Her wonderful story is a meditation on myth & why women make the best spies. Free to read!
#longreads
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This is rad
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On
@FTMag
’s cover this week
@michalchelbin
’s absolutely beautiful profiles of Ukrainian families exiled in Poland, with the brilliant work of
@emmalbowkett
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These are the new iPhones; they're big and they're beautiful
@TIME
#AppleLive
http://t.co/QeUsKI1jmX
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1. I got a lot of emails and DMs about the story clock for
@MilesMJohnson
's
@FTMag
cover story I posted last week, so I thought I’d post a few narrative nonfic resources in case anybody finds it useful (a thread)
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Our
@ftweekend
@FTMag
cover this week was created by the amazing
@freyabettsart
and designed by
@shannonzoe11
#ftwomen2021
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📣
@FTMag
named magazine of the year at the 2023 Newspaper Awards📣 made by
@estherbintliff
@emmalbowkett
@shannonzoe11
@neilos49
@joshklustig
@griseldamb
@HarrietFL
Brian Saffer, Anthony Lavelle, Andrea Crisp, Sophie Hanscombe, Cherish Rufus + Daphne, Sadia, Dorota, Janet & more
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Somehow, it’s my two-year anniversary editing
@ftweekend
@FTMag
, about 100 issues, decent run
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Congrats to my many
@ft
colleagues short-listed for
@PressAwardsuk
, including the entire staff of
@FTMag
for supplement of the year. BUT look at these stone badasses nominated 2x for their work on Crispin Odey!
@miss_marriage
@antoniacundy
@pcaruanagalizia
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What drives London's most notorious graffiti writer? And why, in the most surveilled city on earth, does he risk his life nightly?
@milesellingham
finds out in this
@FTMag
#longreads
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Another brilliant
@courtney_ft
joint on the cover of
@FTMag
this week. Being poisoned by Russian security services used to be a mark of high esteem as an enemy of the state, with pathologically targeted precision. That may be changing
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Time for
@FTMag
’s Women of the Year issue, written by Oprah Winfrey, Janet Yellen, Ann Patchett, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Michelle Bachelet, Marissa Mayer, Leah Williamson, Naomi Osaka, Emerald Fennell & many more. The 25 most influential women of 2023
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This week's
@ftmag
is the Women of the Year issue, with bylines from
@Lagarde
,
@GretaThunberg
,
@SenWarren
,
@ValerieJarrett
,
@MariaBartiromo
,
@DVF
,
@Malala
,
@BillieJeanKing
,
@shoshanazuboff
,
@GovCTW
,
@TheCarrieGracie
,
@AmmaAsante
& many more
#ftwomen2021
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Read this
@ftmag
piece about decades of alleged misconduct by a feted giant. Every editor should be so lucky to ride shotgun w/
@miss_marriage
@antoniacundy
&
@pcaruanagalizia
, & to have the resources, support & guidance of
@khalafroula
to do fearless work
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On this week’s
@TIME
cover by
@lizabeaner
: Why it took 54 years to make ‘A Wrinkle in Time‘
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As many commenters have pointed out, everybody running for Tory leadership (and anybody living through the economic crisis in Britain) should read this
@ftmag
piece written by George Bass & edited by
@estherbintliff
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Our new cover: What Starbucks Knows About America
http://t.co/tAB8kYKpF1
via
@TIME
by
@RanaForoohar
http://t.co/5nxQdzSpzZ
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New
@FTMag
cover story is the one and only
@TimHarford
on navigating our post-truth hellscape
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Can a single image capture the 85 million things going on right now? Yep.
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🚨
@ftweekend
mag will be available this weekend - Dec 9 & 10 - at fine newsstands WORLDWIDE. Pieces by
@matthewbremner2
@YuanfenYang
@DuncanFyfe
@scriblerianm
@JancisRobinson
@TimHarford
@timhayward
@cookinbootsTreat
@KuperSimon
. Buy a copy (or several) so we maybe do it again!
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This week's
@FTMag
is my one-year anniversary issue, which is about 50 covers, which seems like a lot and nothing at all at the same time given how much is in every
@ftweekend
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In this week's
@FTMag
cover, Joshua Oliver has the FTX receipts. And they're cringe. Texts, IMs, slacks, emails and first-hand accounts of how a tiny group of millennials panicked and despaired as they ran a $40bn company into the ground
#longreads
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for this one, we did pretty extensive story clocks as we were working it out. two very early roughs before we decided to weave in the organ transplant thread
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.
@Ollie
’s fascinating voyage into the heart of elite competition is a must-read even if you’re not into chess, on the cover of
@FTMag
& only in
@ftweekend
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Every editor should be so lucky, as I am at the moment, to be simultaneously swimming in 40,000+ words of truly excellent, individual drafts by
@miss_marriage
,
@markvdvd
,
@BondHack
,
@cynthiao
AND
@murphyp
… this is long-form Valhalla bb
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Our
@ftweekend
@FTMag
cover story this week is a classic
@GeorgeWParker
trifecta: funny & informative & may make you despair for democracy
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Noice
Congratulations to the Editors shortlisted for the Editor of the Year - Newspaper Magazine award 👏
@lisamarkwell
@telegraph
@telegraph
@jealnicola
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Thanks to
@CreativeReview
for including
@FTMag
's QE2 issue as one of it's ten best covers of the year. Artwork by Eiko Ojala, design by
@shannonzoe11
, story by
@ImogenWK
and editing by
@estherbintliff
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Months ago,
@RaphaelMinder
stopped by & somehow we got to talking about his sister’s almost-unbelievable life story & the 3 mountaineering accidents that remade it.
@FTMag
’s cover is her remarkable, first-hand account of survival & discovery.
#longreads
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This week’s
@ftweekend
@FTMag
cover on the mind-altering aspects of lockdown life is by the delightfully funny & smart
@ImogenWK
illustration by the incredible Yeye Weller
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See Google's absolutely stunning new headquarters design
http://t.co/bjShKJvHAV
via
@TIMEBusiness
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Pac-Man's creator says the game was a feminist masterpiece
http://t.co/yAyw8q1l0c
via
@Techland
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In the last year, nearly 100 million birds have died as a result of an aggressive new strain of avian flu,
@maddievitesse
reports in this weekend's shocking
@FTMag
cover story, with stunning, painterly photography by
@robbielawrence1
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Our
@FTMag
cover story this weekend is a mind-expanding romp through the scientific, cultural and culinary dimensions of mushrooms written by
@timhayward
with stunning photography by Phyllis Ma
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Inside the epic struggle to build a robot that looks like us
http://t.co/e5SIGVUIPM
via
@TIME
@leverus
http://t.co/IDuGKwbhYG
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No joke, we’re headed to London!
The
@FT
is pleased to announce the appointment of
@mattvella
as editor of FTWeekend Magazine. Read more here:
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"In these times, when it feels like people are more focused on what they should say to be perceived as polite, rather than what actually needs to be said, Vanessa speaks truth to power."
@GretaThunberg
on
@vanessa_vash
#ftwomen2021
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Thrilled that, on Monday,
@HarrietFL
will officially be joining
@ftweekend
@FTMag
as Food & Drink editor! (In truth, she has been helping us out for quite some time, including masterminding our most-recent blockbuster special.) Much, much more Tk soon…
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Read
@TomHale_
’s unbelievable account of being taken to a vast, secret and hastily built quarantine facility on an island outside of Shanghai
@FTMag
@ftweekend
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The
@ftmag
is made by:
@neilos49
@401bristar
@shannonzoe11
@emmalbowkett
@CordeliaJ
@HarrietFL
@griseldamb
@baya_simons
@joshklustig
Antony Lavelle, Andrea Crisp, Cherish Rufus, Sophie Hanscombe (& editor emeritus
@estherbintliff
)
Congratulations to:
@FT
Magazine
Style /
@thetimes
Sunday Times Magazine /
@thetimes
The News Review /
@ObsMagazine
@Telegraph
Magazine
@thetimes
Magazine
on being shortlisted in
#ThePressAwards
Supplement of the Year category
View the full shortlist:
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Lest ye forget: Watch the evolution of Apple's iPhone in a single GIF
http://t.co/wmtrtmFgdS
via
@TIME
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.
@henrymance
wrote a wonderfully reported, eye-opening
@ftmag
cover story about the cutting-edge science of pig intelligence. (our cover star's name is Grape)
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up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start
#TIME100
http://t.co/xkVWAFToTR
via
@TIME
http://t.co/fHGJaXuwI3
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Our
@FTMag
cover this week is the wild and weirder than anybody realizes inside story of Peloton's terrible run by
@Edgecliffe
&
@PatrickMcGee_
with the brilliant cover direction of
@401bristar
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Soon you'll be able to order pizza simply by tweeting the pizza emoji
http://t.co/rnsxHIWysC
via
@TIME
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One thing I didn’t know about moving to England is that they’re still running new seasons of The Thick of It over here
Tory MP Michael Fabricant says the understanding was that the alleged No 10 garden party was "not spreading the disease because these were people already working closely together".
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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It’s here!
@FT
’s Women of the Year 2022 in
@FTMag
written by
@abigaildisney
,
@jaimeleecurtis
,
@bmeado9
,
@amanpour
, Marina Abramović,
@nicolasturgeon
& many more
#ftwomen2022
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This week's
@ftweekend
@ftmag
cover is
@simonmundy
's two-year report from the frontlines of the climate crisis
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Apple's Watch let's you flirt, pay and do a million other tasks from your wrist
#AppleLive
http://t.co/nYUwWJF64N
via
@TIME
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Why, dear God, why? Xbox and Playstation networks both go down for Christmas
http://t.co/YZS9K4nTmV
via
@Techland
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Our
@FTMag
cover story this week is
@hannahkuchler
's fascinating inside story of the development of a highly effective weight loss drug, the first in an emerging generation of obesity treatments. It works - with some...side effects
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A higher minimum wage won't solve America's inequality crisis
http://t.co/qPxjZYdZth
via
@TIMEBusiness
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This week’s
@FTMag
cover story is a chilling and beautifully told story by
@jessiwrites
about what really lies behind a series of notorious Michigan murders. Total 🔥, page-turner, do not miss
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Our
@FTMag
cover story this week is
@nickswicks
' gripping, revealing and ultimately heartbreaking tale of three South African copper thieves' struggle to survive. Come meet TwoSix, Mafia and Sausages...
#longreads
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The Walking Dead was extremely gory last night, more than usual
http://t.co/u6YDl7kVaZ
via
@TIMECulture
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This week's
@FTMag
cover story by
@LouStoppard
is a romp through the upper echelons of London's corporate intelligence world in which elite investigators hunt oligarchs, billionaires and royals. It truly slaps, enjoy.
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This is a remarkable, must-read
@ftmag
story, full of wtf scoops, about the heights of high finance and lows of human hubris -- and murder, yachts, downfalls and financial escapology by the indomitable
@cynthiao
&
@BondHack
#longreads
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Also, hearing
@stoya
effortlessly explain capitalism’s internal contradictions is 💯
HOT MONEY, the podcast we've been working on for the best part of a year, is out today.
It's an amazing financial story -- running straight through the porn industry.
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Anybody who's ever parented or been parented should read
@courtney_ft
's excellent
@FTMag
cover story this week on the ecstasies and agonies of the gentle parenting movement, wonderfully illustrated by the singular
@lianafinck
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Might've called this one wrong
@JoshuaChaffin
and I discussed whether everything that could be written about DeSantis had by the time he was on his way down to Florida. His wonderfully told story proved it hadn’t… With a gonzo cover by Brian Saffer
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I'd love to casually note that I edited Elena Ferrante & Marina Abramović this week, but I can't. This
@ftweekend
@FTMag
cover's entirely an
@griseldamb
joint aided and abetted by
@emmalbowkett
and
@shannonzoe11
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This week’s
@FTMag
cover story is a
@MilesMJohnson
mafia epic about two murders twenty five years apart that changed Italy forever with incredible photography (/casting/set design/location scouting) by
@kale_akte
#longreads
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The outpouring of accounts of serious falls & close calls from all sorts of people & the many, highly detailed emails from train engineers in response to
@miss_marriage
’s
@ftmag
story this week has been astonishing (read it for free in the FT Edit app)
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Tim Cook on Donald Trump, President Obama, and who he gets advice from on Apple's fight with the FBI via
@TIME
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with the deluge of shitty “content” — scraped, summarised, digested, bullet-pointed — that’s about to hit the web via the LLMs, the world will really need ambitious narratives that are more carefully wrought than the average news story yet more current than a book
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"X, fomerly Twitter" currently the most painful phrase in the english language
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50 video games you won't be able to stop playing in 2015
http://t.co/uAko4mEQFy
via
@Techland
by
@mattpeckham
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All hail the arrival of summer and
@FTMag
food & drink editor
@HarrietFL
Sneak peek 👀 of this weekend's summer food & drink special...
Look out for the story on Saturday at
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🚨final alert 🚨 that
@FTMag
is available TODAY ONLY in
@ftweekend
worldwide. It’s the best value in the biz! We’ve heard from happy readers from Sydney to LA and Brussels— please send feedback to magazineletters [at] ft dot com…
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In this week's
@FTMag
@b_parkyn
and
@FazelQazizai
have written a moment-by-moment account of what happened in the village of Dost Kol on the eve of the Taliban's taking of Kabul last summer. Fantastic reporting, powerfully told
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IMHO: One of Nimoy's greatest performances was one of the most obscure
http://t.co/LLtp1KbJID
via
@Techland
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