FT appoints Paul Caruana Galizia

The Financial Times says led by Chris Cook, the new team will bring together investigative journalists with FT engineers and data scientists to discover and break stories that lie beyond the reach of conventional reporting methods.

Caruana Galizia joins the FT from Tortoise Media where he investigated Russian influence on British politics, Iran’s treatment of dissidents in London, the former King of Spain’s financial affairs, and sexual misconduct investigations. He has won a British Journalism Award, a Press Award, an Orwell special prize and six other honours.

His book about the assassination of his mother Daphne, "A Death in Malta", won the Overseas Press Club’s Cornelius Ryan Award for the best book on international affairs. With his brothers, he has received a Magnitsky Human Rights Award and an Anderson-Lucas-Norman Award for their campaign to bring her killers to justice. He holds a PhD in economic history from the London School of Economics.

FT editor Roula Khalaf said: "I am delighted that Paul is joining the FT. He is one of the most respected and effective investigative journalists in the business. His contribution will be essential to our exploration of what computational journalism can do – and to keeping the FT at the forefront of journalistic innovation."

Paul Caruana Galizia said: “I am so thrilled to be joining the FT, whose reporting I have long admired. I am especially excited about joining its new computational journalism team, an opportunity to use the latest techniques to uncover and tell important stories – and one that will allow me to combine story-breaking with my background in data analysis.”