Barney Jopson

About

Award-winning journalist with a track record of groundbreaking reporting for the Financial Times across four continents. I currently cover Spain and Portugal for the FT from a base in Madrid and have previously worked as a foreign correspondent in Washington DC, New York, Nairobi and Tokyo. I have a proven history of delivering scoops, front-line dispatches and long-form reportage on wars, elections, climate disasters, corporate scandals and energy revolutions. I've also been the FT's executive news editor in London, making decisions on the biggest stories of the day at the heart of the newsroom during Covid-19 and Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. I began my journalism career writing in Japanese for Nikkei. A native English speaker, I'm fluent in Spanish and Japanese and proficient in French. My reporting has been recognized with journalism prizes from SABEW in the US, the UK's Wincott Foundation, the Society of Publishers in Asia, Spain's International Press Club and the Fundación Hispano Británica. As a news getter and storyteller, I'm skilled at connecting personal tales to the broader currents of international affairs, ensuring every piece has impact, originality and global resonance.