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Sam Joiner

Visual stories and investigations editor

Sam Joiner leads the award-winning 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.

Sam was previously head of data and digital storytelling at the Times and the Sunday Times.

Email Sam Joiner @samjoiner  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    News in-depthSyrian crisis
    Inside the Syrian prison at the heart of Assad’s police state

    On the outskirts of Damascus, Saydnaya holds the secrets to the fate of thousands who disappeared under the dictator

    A man holds onto bars at Sadnaya prison
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Visual investigation
    Russia uses civilians as ‘target practice’ for killer drones

    Southern Ukrainian city of Kherson hit more than 9,500 times as Moscow attempts to drive out residents

    A collage of photos showing Russian drone targets and a man in a hospital bed who has lost part of his leg
  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
    ExplainerIsrael-Hamas war
    The Israel-Hamas war in maps and charts

    A visual guide to the conflict and its regional impact, including in Lebanon

  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    Visual story
    Are the robots finally coming?

    Advances in physical AI means machines are learning skills previously thought impossible

    Blueprint-style illustration of a robot with an extended arm and mechanical hand against a background grid, highlighting technical details and robotic components
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Hamas-linked security forces kneecap suspected profiteers in Gaza

    Rampant aid theft prompts former authorities to attempt price controls and shoot rule-breakers as starvation looms

    An armed masked man stands over a tied up, hooded person in Khan Younis, Gaza
  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    COP28
    How each country’s emissions compare

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

  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    How Trump won in maps and charts

    President-elect gained ground in all but one state and is on course to win the popular vote

    Montage of Donald Trump and a US map
  • Sunday, 3 November, 2024
    Middle East war
    The demolitions clearing Israel’s ‘first belt’ in Lebanon

    IDF decimates towns and villages within 3km of border as it fights Hizbollah

    A huge blast in the Lebanese village of Aitaroun
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    Visual investigation
    ‘All the evil’: doctors in the line of fire in world’s forgotten war

    Sudan’s brutal civil war is taking a devastating toll on the country’s health facilities

  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    How FT readers are faring in the Budget Game

    Players show scale of challenge facing Rachel Reeves on October 30

    An illustration of politicians sitting at a cabinet table discussing the Budget
  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    Visual story
    The Budget Game: Can you run the UK economy?

    Step into the chancellor’s shoes and devise your fiscal plan

  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Visual story
    Inside one family’s year-long mission to survive the Israel-Hamas war

    More than 2mn people live in Gaza. Now almost all of them are seeking refuge

    A composite image of Ramy’s family from before the war on top of a map of a refugee camp in Gaza
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Visual story
    Can you mastermind a US presidential campaign?

    Compete for the White House against other readers in the Election Game

    An illustration of a counter standing behind a podium marked with the US presidential seal
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Visual investigation
    How extremist settlers in the West Bank became the law

    Mobilisation of violent settlers has intensified Palestinians’ fears of attacks and displacement

    A composite image of settlers overlaid on a map of the West Bank
  • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
    Visual story
    Ten days that turned the tables on Russia

    How Ukraine pulled off a spectacular counterpunch against Moscow by invading its invader

  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    Visual investigation
    The European boats fishing under a veil of secrecy

    EU vessels are registering with African fleets and exploiting local fishing laws

  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    Visual story
    Inside the race to make the world’s fastest running shoes

    CT scans reveal the technology propelling record-breaking long-distance runners

  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    Visual story
    Who wants to work in Canary Wharf?

    A host of buildings will require renovations to attract new tenants as major occupants depart

  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    Visual story
    How private equity tangled banks in debt

    Complex layers of leverage could pose a threat to the global economy

    A composite image of the circles and squares used in the private equity network diagram that features in this visual story
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Type of Russian missile that struck Kyiv children’s hospital uses western components

    Kremlin has turned to microprocessors and other technology not intended for military use to skirt sanctions

    A montage of photos of components of the Kh-101 missile and the aftermath of a missile strike
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    The UK’s new electoral map in charts

    The results are in — what have we learned?

  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    Visual investigation
    The Taliban mining boom

    Islamist regime has issued hundreds of contracts to tap gold, gemstones and minerals

  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    Visual investigation
    FT investigation finds Ukrainian children on Russian adoption sites

    Four missing Ukrainian children identified and located in Russia, including one given false identity

    Pixelated images of children are overlayed on a photo of an empty children’s play area
  • Sunday, 19 May, 2024
    Visual story
    The battlegrounds that could decide a US-China war over Taiwan

    Five key military contests are likely to determine the outcome of a conflict

  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
    Visual story
    How Ukraine broke Russia’s grip in the Black Sea

    Attacks on Moscow’s warships have helped to establish an export corridor that could boost Kyiv’s war effort

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