{{short description|British journalist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Jo Ellison | image = | caption = | birth_place = Cambridge, UK | alma_mater = University of Edinburgh | occupation = Journalist | employer = {{Plainlist| * ''Irish Examiner'' * ''The Independent'' * ''British Vogue'' * ''Financial Times''}} | spouse = Enda Walsh | known_for = ''How to Spend It'' | children = 1 | website = {{Official URL}} }}
'''Jo Ellison''' is editor of ''How to Spend It'' (HTSI), a weekly magazine of the newspaper ''Financial Times''.<ref name=brassy>{{cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/8bcb3bd5-88b2-4f4a-bb84-ff5bce4137af|website=ft.com|publisher=Financial Times|first=Jo|last=Ellison|authorlink=Jo Ellison|location=London|title=The brassy brilliance of Angela Rayner: Forget the critics, the deputy prime minister is the most relatable MP I've ever seen|year=2024|quote=By contrast, Rayner recalls every other sleep-deprived mother (or, like her, grandmother) trying to rouse some action on the PTA: her bronze eye shadow might be brassy, and her wacky lipstick smudgy, but by God she'll have you volunteering for a shift on that tombola at the school fete next weekend.}}</ref><Ref name=off>{{cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/jo-ellison|website=ft.com|title=Jo Ellison: Deputy editor, FT Weekend & HTSI editor|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180603080548/https://www.ft.com/jo-ellison|archivedate=2018-06-03|author=Anon|year=2018|publisher=Financial Times}}</ref><ref name=thegown>{{cite book|title=Vogue: The Gown|year= 2017|isbn=978-1840917642|oclc=986847775|first=Jo|last=Ellison|publisher= Octopus Publishing}}</ref>
== Education and early life == Born in Cambridge and raised between London and Dubai, Ellison studied history at the University of Edinburgh.<ref name=off/> == Career ==
Ellison's journalism career began at the ''Irish Examiner'' before 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|date=January 2022}} She was the second-ever person to inhabit the role after the newspaper decided to invest in regular fashion coverage in 2002.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}} In 2019, ''Financial Times'' announced Ellison would succeed longtime ''How to Spend It'' editor Gillian de Bono.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Financial Times appoints Jo Ellison as editor of How To Spend It|year=2019|author=Anon|url=https://aboutus.ft.com/en-gb/announcements/financial-times-appoints-jo-ellison-as-editor-of-how-to-spend-it/|access-date=2020-11-16|website=aboutus.ft.com|language=en-gb|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425231248/https://aboutus.ft.com/press_release/financial-times-appoints-jo-ellison-as-editor-of-how-to-spend-it|archivedate=2021-04-25}}</ref>
==Personal life== Ellison met her future husband, playwright Enda Walsh,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jo Ellison is part of the BoF 500|url=https://www.businessoffashion.com/community/people/jo-ellison|access-date=2020-11-16|website=businessoffashion.com|date=3 October 2019 |language=en-GB}}</ref> while working in a theatre in Edinburgh. She moved to Cork to live with him a year later.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Walsh|first=Rachel Marie|date=2016-09-24|title=A day in the life of Financial Times fashion editor Jo Ellison|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/fashionandbeauty/arid-20422569.html|access-date=2020-11-16|website=irishexaminer.com|language=en}}</ref> They currently{{when|date=July 2024}} live together in Kilburn, London with their daughter.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-08-08|title=Enda Walsh on his latest opera, The Second Violinist|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/enda-walsh-the-second-violinist-a3904761.html|access-date=2020-11-16|website=standard.co.uk|publisher=Evening Standard|language=en|first=Nick|last=Curtis}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}}
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