Jo Ellison
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Jo Ellison | |
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Born | Cambridge, UK |
Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
Occupation | Journalist |
Spouse | Enda Walsh |
Children | 1 |
Jo Ellison is editor of How to Spend It, a weekly magazine of the newspaper Financial Times.[citation needed]
Personal life
Born in Cambridge and raised between London and Dubai, Ellison studied history at the University of Edinburgh.[citation needed] 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
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.[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 will succeed longtime How to Spend It editor Gillian de Bono.[4]
Publications
- Vogue: The Gown, 2017, ISBN 978-1840917642
References
- ^ "Jo Ellison is part of the BoF 500". The Business of Fashion. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
- ^ Walsh, Rachel Marie (24 September 2016). "A day in the life of Financial Times fashion editor Jo Ellison". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
- ^ "Enda Walsh on his latest opera, The Second Violinist". Evening Standard. 8 August 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
- ^ "Financial Times appoints Jo Ellison as editor of How To Spend It". aboutus.ft.com. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
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