David Pilling
Financial TimesDavid Pilling has been a correspondent for the Financial Times for 30 years with postings in the UK, Chile, Argentina, Japan and Hong Kong, where he served as Asia Editor. He writes columns, news and features on a wide range of topics, often at the intersection of business, politics and public policy, but he also strays regularly into art and culture. He tries, as much as possible, to get the voices of marginalised people into the pages of the Financial Times. He is currently the FT’s Africa Editor.
His shortlisted pieces are:
- The young people sifting through the internet’s worst horrors
- You can’t unsee it: the content moderators taking on Facebook
- Nobel-winning novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah: ‘I had no other place to go’
- A fire in South Africa symbolises an entire system gone up in flames
David Pilling’s compelling stories of the young Africans recruited from across the continent to sift through the worst of the internet as content moderators for Meta forces us to confront the harms that are outsourced to keep us safe. His work helps to expose the social injustices at the digital coalface, but also shows us the resilience and resourcefulness of those fighting back.
– Yuen Chan, 2024 Orwell Prize for Journalism judge
