Welcome to #FTWeekendFestival ! Shout-out to FT US Guild members on today’s program, including Lilah Raptopoulos, Marc Filippino, Robert Armstrong & @sonjahutson.

They want a #faircontractnow , just like all our unit's 60+ US workers. Sadly, @FT defines “fair” as “heads I win, tails you lose”.

So happy to see this out in the world after nearly a year of sleuthing & reporting by the brilliant Eric Platt, as well as months of data crunching & analysis by yours truly & Patrick Mathurin. I learned so much in the process - and hope readers will too after reading our story

Thrilled to win a Sigma award for our investigation exposing the scale of China’s suppression of Islamic culture. A huge team effort w/ Yuan Yang Lucy Rodgers Irene de la Torre Arenas Peter Andringa Eva Xiao Max Harlow Joe Leahy Sun Yu and many others in FT Data

🚨 EXC: Thousands of mosques in China have been altered or destroyed as Beijing’s suppression of Islam spreads to almost every region of the country.

W/ Yuan Yang Lucy Rodgers Peter Andringa Eva Xiao Irene de la Torre Arenas Max Harlow Joe Leahy Sun Yu

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Today is a big day for FT US Guild — our bargaining committee is presenting our wage proposal

Rahile Dawut, a leading scholar of Uyghur traditional culture who disappeared in December 2017, has been sentenced to life in prison for endangering China’s state security, a human-rights group said. wsj.com/world/china/ch…

Some belated news: I’ve joined the data & visuals dream team Financial Times as a data journalist 🥳 I’ll be covering a wide range of topics in the US — say hi and send tips to [email protected]!

One of my New Year’s resolutions is to share more data and code! So I finally got around to publishing a dataset I compiled on COVID-19 lockdowns in China: github.com/xiaoeva/china-…

'Some retired senior party members also petitioned against imposing the new tax, saying they themselves couldn’t afford to pay any additional taxes... “The tax proposal is becoming a potential social-stability issue.' Another huge scoop by Lingling Wei 魏玲灵: wsj.com/articles/in-ta…

Shout out to all the amazing journalists who bring light to the world, whether or not they win awards!

Kudos in particular to not-always-celebrated female photojournalists; daily reporters; unbylined editors, translators & news assistants. You're all doing powerful work!

Overcome with gratitude that I get to work every day with these kick-ass journalists and beyond thrilled to see their work recognized like this. Congrats Jeremy Page 裴杰 Chun Han Wong 王春翰 Lingling Wei 魏玲灵 Chao Deng @wsjeva Liza Lin Sha;) Jonathan Cheng laurence norman

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Powerful combo picture has just hit the AFP News Agency wire.

Shows Tiananmen anniversary vigils in Hong Kong's Victoria Park in 1990, 1999, 2004, 2011, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020 and... tonight

“Tang ping is an action rather than a feeling — resolving to just scrape by, exerting the bare minimum effort at an unfulfilling job, as opposed to the futility of raging against the capitalist machine.” sixthtone.com/news/1007589/t…

The niece of prominent Uyghur scholar and linguist-in-exile Abduweli Ayup has been confirmed to have died while being investigated by state security police in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) Prefecture in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
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