Matt Vella

I'm @BW's International Editor. Previously edited @FTMag. Views my own

[Matt Vella @mattvella]

1/ After 5 years & 250+ issues of @ftmag, I'm leaving. Making a magazine at a newspaper can be...challenging. But with a handful of rogues & renegades, we turned a dusty house organ into the UK's premier home for narrative longform & @FT's most read/decorated section. Lessons:

[Matt Vella @mattvella]

mic check

[Kit Chellel @KitChellel]

I wrote about two trees and a fungus
https://t.co/LxmHJjqzcW

[Matt Vella @mattvella]

@chrisremo @DuncanFyfe Yoda da man

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

Epitaph for a glacier

Glaciers are not supposed to stop moving, but in 2014 one did. Miles Ellingham travels to Iceland to see it and meet the activist who believes its death should shock us into taking action

✍️ @milesellingham
https://t.co/8qzbzz0kVG

[Matt Vella @mattvella]

Accountability... https://t.co/orO5keSVId

[Matt Vella @mattvella]

V sad. She was a light

[Will Sloan @WillSloanEsq]

Very saddened to learn of the passing of Soraya Roberts. @CoreyAtad has a tribute here where he's curated a lot of her writing:
https://t.co/D2baX4qvLa

[William D. Cohan @WilliamCohan]

A mini media mogul’s tale

My 2010 review of Randall Lane’s “memoir” pretty much predicted that something like this could happen. https://t.co/ZcA41TNGob

[Matt Vella @mattvella]

Me and my options about the overuse of m-dashes

[Matt Vella @mattvella]

Go to this if you can!

[William Ralston @_WilliamRalston]

For two years, I followed some of the world's best referees around as they prepared for the 2026 World Cup. I'll be speaking about those experiences in London, on September 10, to promote the book I've written about them. Tickets are free. Few remain.
https://t.co/oXdgKCuBMb

[Matt Vella @mattvella]

One of my last pieces for @ftmag by the brilliant Mr Bremner

[Longreads @Longreads]

"She looks at her boy and, for the first time, in a way that feels almost unbearable, she understands what was done to them." Matthew Bremner for @ft https://t.co/IWycpl3efK

[Matt Vella @mattvella]

Some real lolz in here

[Bloomberg @business]

Lululemon has a new CEO, after a series of missteps. One of her first challenges isn’t a rival — it’s the brand’s combative founder https://t.co/wvmQiiJFCw

[Brad Stone @BradStone]

A confidential internal document shows TikTok withheld a safety feature from millions of users — including a teenager who died by suicide.

@livcarville in @BW
https://t.co/47kHh5hQbV

[Matt Vella @mattvella]

@carloapostoli @401bristar This made me laugh so loudly & inappropriately in my new office thx, miss u

[Matt Vella @mattvella]

1/ After 5 years & 250+ issues of @ftmag, I'm leaving. Making a magazine at a newspaper can be...challenging. But with a handful of rogues & renegades, we turned a dusty house organ into the UK's premier home for narrative longform & @FT's most read/decorated section. Lessons:

[Matt Vella @mattvella]

10/ Finally (with many important people left unmentioned): A good editor is entirely their taste, their own understanding of it, & their own trust in it. Sometimes you make stuff for the audience (& rarely for your bosses), but the greatest work is work you make for yourself.

[Matt Vella @mattvella]

9/ And then there's the holy trinity of @miss_marriage, @antoniacundy & @pcaruanagalizia. Nobody I've ever worked with has been as willing to put themselves on the line to do great stories. They're brilliant and they're family