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    Sam Joiner

    Visual stories and investigations editor

    Sam Joiner leads the visual stories and investigations team — an interdisciplinary group of journalists using computational tools and traditional reporting to produce explainers, investigations and deep dives in visual formats.

    The team won a Press Gazette Future of Media award in 2023 for an investigation into North Korean oil smuggling and in 2022 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.

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    • Sunday, 25 February, 2024
      ExplainerIsrael-Hamas war
      The Israel-Hamas war in maps: latest updates

      A visual guide to the war

      Montage of Gaza map and photograph of Israeli tanks on the border
    • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
      Visual investigation
      Russia’s sham rebuild of one Ukrainian city

      Residents of Mariupol live in half-built homes while Russian companies profit from contracts worth millions

      A composite image showing a map of Mariupol, a damaged apartment block in the city and a Russian tank
    • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
      Visual investigation
      The hidden cost of your supermarket salmon

      Fish sold by major retailers in Europe is harming food security in west Africa

      A photo of a small fishing boat in the waters of Nouadhibou, Mauritania’s second largest city
    • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
      Visual story
      Can AI help us speak to animals?

      Scientists are eavesdropping on animal conversations. Will generative AI enable us to talk back?

    • Sunday, 3 December, 2023
      COP28
      How each country’s emissions and climate pledges compare

      A searchable dashboard of 193 countries’ historical emissions and future climate targets

    • Monday, 27 November, 2023
      Visual investigation
      How China is tearing down Islam

      Thousands of mosques have been altered or destroyed as Beijing’s suppression of Islamic culture spreads

      A grid of 15 satellite images of mosques before and after they have been modified or destroyed
    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      Visual story
      The global network behind the fentanyl crisis

      The illicit trade routes responsible for the worst overdose crisis in US history

    • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
      Visual story
      How Israeli air strikes destroyed a busy neighbourhood in Gaza

      Much of once-vibrant Rimal has been reduced to rubble after missiles flattened homes and businesses and forced residents to flee

    • Sunday, 15 October, 2023
      News in-depthVisual investigation
      Did Israel bomb a civilian evacuation route in Gaza?

      Experts say evidence suggests most likely cause was a missile

      Four charred cars, one with flames coming out the rear windscreen, sit on a road. The air is grey as thick black smoke emerges above the cars.
    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      News in-depthVisual investigation
      Seventeen hours of terror: how Hamas invaded one Israeli community

      The residents of Be’eri were left to fend for themselves as militants killed, kidnapped and roamed unchallenged

      Photos from surveillance video of Hamas’s attack on Be’eri
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      Visual story
      Can Europe go green without China’s critical minerals?

      The EU’s increasing demand for rare earths is causing problems for policymakers

    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      Visual story
      How generative AI really works

      The technology has resulted in a host of cutting-edge AI applications — but its real power lies beyond text generation

      A composite image of letters, words and shapes
    • Sunday, 13 August, 2023
      Visual and data journalism
      Meta’s Twitter rival Threads unravels

      Other charts of the week: Tube ridership, European wolf population, scrutiny of savings and mortgage rates and voters’ opinions on nationalisation

      Montage showing the Twitter and Threads logos with a decreasing line graph
    • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
      Visual and data journalism
      Poppy production almost disappears from Afghanistan’s Helmand province

      Also record number of people forced to flee, poverty rates for children in immigrant households and El Niño events

    • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
      FT Investigations
      The isolated and dangerous lives of migrant fishermen in the UK

      Two cousins came to the UK for a better life. They left changed forever

    • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
      Visual story
      Which flying taxi will take off first?

      Companies around the world are closing in on the dream: a battery-powered aircraft for short trips. Yet the journey to build, certify and fly remains uncertain and competitive

    • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
      Visual story
      Subsea cables: how the US is pushing China out of the internet’s plumbing

      Driven by fears of espionage and geopolitical tensions, experts say the infrastructure underpinning the internet is in danger of dividing into eastern and western blocks

    • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
      Visual story
      How Taiwan became the indispensable economy

      Fearing a potential conflict in Asia, western companies are looking to move production out of Taiwan. But turning away from the self-ruled island will come at a high price for manufacturers

    • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
      Visual story
      Quantum computing could break the internet. This is how

      We don’t know when. We don’t know who will get there first. But Q-day will happen — and it will change the world as we know it

    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      Visual story
      ‘India’s century’: can the most populous nation unlock the potential of its youth?

      India could seize its demographic dividend — or squander it

    • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
      The Big Read
      The illusion of saving the planet with a trillion trees

      Governments have promised to plant an area larger than the Amazon to help save the planet. The goal is laudable. But is it remotely plausible?

      A globe with illustrations of trees overlaid on top of it
    • Wednesday, 29 March, 2023
      Visual investigation
      Inside North Korea’s oil smuggling: triads, ghost ships and underground banks

      An investigation into the Chinese criminal networks helping to prop up the rogue nuclear regime

      A CGI reconstruction of the Unica, a vessel known to deliver oil to North Korea, in front of a map of East Asia
    • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
      Visual investigation
      From ‘paradise’ to hell: how a luxury residence in Turkey became an earthquake death trap

      A collapsed apartment complex symbolises rot in country’s construction system

    • Tuesday, 21 February, 2023
      FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: military strategies
      How long can Russia keep fighting the war in Ukraine?

      Putin’s war machine is under enormous pressure, but Russia has the resources to sustain its efforts in Ukraine for some time to come

    • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
      Visual investigation
      How arming Ukraine is stretching the US defence industry

      Detailed supply chain mapping reveals a complex web of companies under significant strain

      an illustration of a Javelin anti-tank missile
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