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Jo Ellison

Jo Ellison is editor of How to Spend It, a weekly magazine of the newspaper Financial Times.

Jo Ellison

Journalist

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Personal life[edit]

Born in Cambridge and raised between London and Dubai, Ellison studied history at the University of Edinburgh. It was while studying in Edinburgh that she met her future husband, playwright Enda Walsh,[1] while working in a theatre. She moved to Cork to live with him a year later.[2] They currently live together in Kilburn with their daughter.[3]

Career[edit]

Ellison's journalism career began at the Irish Examiner and on moving back to London with Walsh in 2006, 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. She was the second-ever person to inhabit the role after the newspaper decided to invest in regular fashion coverage in 2002. In 2019, Financial Times announced Ellison will succeed longtime How to Spend It editor Gillian de Bono.[4]

Vogue: The Gown, 2017,  978-1840917642

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