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Sam Learner

Graphics Journalist

Sam Learner is a graphics journalist in the visual storytelling team, an interdisciplinary group of journalists combining data, design, coding and reporting skills.

The team won a Press Gazette Future of Media award in 2023 for an investigation into North Korean oil smuggling and in 2022 for their coverage of the Ukraine war. They have also won multiple awards for the Climate Game.

The team focus on projects where visual elements play an essential role in communicating the story, working on everything from investigations to explainers across the spectrum of news and features.

Email Sam Learner @sam_learner  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    ExplainerWar in Ukraine
    Tracking Ukraine’s battle against Russia in maps

    A visual guide to the war

    Montage of map of Ukraine and tanks
  • 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
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
    Money surges into the Harris campaign

    The vice president raised four times as much money as Donald Trump in July

  • 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

  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Harris raised four times as much cash as Trump in July

    Small-dollar donations surged after vice-president replaced Joe Biden on Democratic ticket

    Pictures of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Harris spends 10 times as much as Trump on digital ad blitz

    Former president’s lacklustre output points to significant tactical change from four years ago

    Kamala Harris and Donald Trump
  • 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
  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Trump overtakes Biden in campaign fundraising

    Former president receives surge of donations since hush-money conviction while Democrats fret over their candidate

    Montage of Donald Trump, left, and Joe Biden speaking
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Trump’s donations surge by $400mn to tighten money race with Biden

    Second-quarter fundraising by groups backing the Republican nominee was double the pace in 2020

    Donald Trump donations surge by $400mn to tighten money race with Biden
  • 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
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Trump taps Texas oil tycoons in bid to close cash gap with Biden

    Harold Hamm and Occidental Petroleum boss among backers as ex-president vows to scrap Democrat’s climate agenda

    Donald Trump
  • 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, 9 May, 2024
    The Big Read
    Big Oil boomed under Biden. So why does it hate him?

    The president’s focus on tackling climate change has upset US producers, who are instead funding Trump

    Montage image of Joe Biden, oil infrastructure and chart lines
  • 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

  • Sunday, 21 April, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Trump spends more than a quarter of campaign donations on legal fees

    Ex-president’s court cases have drained $76mn from his election coffers since January last year

    Donald Trump at the Manhattan criminal court in New York
  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Trump falls $75mn behind Biden in money race as donor base shrinks

    FT analysis finds former US president is trailing his own campaign numbers from 2020

    Donald Trump in an ad selling ‘God bless the USA’ Bibles
  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2024
    Borderlands
    The migrant highway that could sway the US election

    The Darién Gap has become a key migration route for people heading towards the US

  • Wednesday, 28 February, 2024
    Visual story
    Inside the miracle of modern chip manufacturing

    After coming up against the limits of physics, scientists are rethinking chip architecture like never before

  • Saturday, 24 February, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    How much more cash does Nikki Haley have for her primary run?

    The former South Carolina governor has deep-pocketed supporters — but keeps losing to Donald Trump

  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    Donald Trump
    Trump’s donor numbers fall by 200,000 compared with 2019

    Drop sparks Republican concerns about depth of enthusiasm for party’s 2024 presidential frontrunner

    Donald Trump
  • Thursday, 1 February, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Trump’s legal bill and Biden’s cash boost: inside the 2024 money race

    Federal data shows which Wall Street billionaire is funding who — and how much Ron DeSantis spent on jets

    A montage of Joe Biden and Donald Trump with the US flag in the background
  • Thursday, 1 February, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Trump campaign spent more than $52mn on legal battles in 2023

    Total represents about 30% of what was raised by groups backing the former president

    Donald Trump supporters pose in front of a poster of his mugshot and an image of Ronald Reagan in Nevada in January
  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Blackstone chief gave $2mn to Christie campaign after previously backing Trump

    Stephen Schwarzman switched support to ‘new generation’ after disappointing 2022 midterms for GOP

    Stephen Schwarzman and Donald Trump in 2017
  • Wednesday, 24 January, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    How Trump is steamrolling through the Republican primaries

    No Republican candidate has ever had such a strong position at this point in a presidential nomination race

    Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a primary election night party
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