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Josh Spero

Associate arts editor
Josh Spero commissions and edits stories across the full range of arts for the FT. Previously he was associate editor of FT Weekend magazine, transport correspondent and deputy editor of Special Reports, as well as opinion editor of Nikkei Asia, based in Tokyo on a one-year secondment.
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