Jo Ellison is editor of '' How to Spend It'' (HTSI), a weekly magazine of the newspaper ''

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''.

Education and early life

Born in Cambridge and raised between London and

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, Ellison studied history at the

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Career

Ellison's journalism career began at the ''

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'' before she became features editor of ''

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'', writing arts reviews and shaping articles. In 2008 she pursued an opportunity at ''

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'', where she became features editor, and then features director, before taking over as fashion editor at the ''

'' from

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who moved to ''

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'' in 2014. She was the second-ever person to inhabit the role after the newspaper decided to invest in regular fashion coverage in 2002. In 2019, ''Financial Times'' announced Ellison would succeed longtime '' How to Spend It'' editor Gillian de Bono.

Personal life

Ellison met her future husband,

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, while working in a theatre in Edinburgh. She moved to

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to live with him a year later. They currently live together in

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with their daughter.

References

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