Mitchell Baker, CEO of Mozilla Corporation and chair of the Mozilla Foundation.The program’s jurors this year, chaired by the FT’s Kahlef: “But it also tackles two vital issues of our age: how Big Tech treats smaller rivals and how social media companies are shaping the lives of a new generation.”Īnd Kevin Sneader, McKinsey’s global managing partner, said, “Sarah Frier has written a compelling saga about how this startup phenomenon deeply embedded itself into the global cultural zeitgeist of this digital era, in just one decade after its creation.”Ĭarrying a cash award of £30,000 (US$40,250) for its winner, each of the runners-up receives £10,000 (US$13,416), making the total purse of the program for authors worth £80,000 (US$107,334). Roula Kahlef, the Financial Times editor who chaired this year’s jury, said about the book, “ No Filter is a topical and well-reported account of the rise of Instagram and its takeover by Facebook. The book is published in the United Kingdom by Random House Business UK and in the United States by Simon & Shuster.

Image: FT/McKinseyīy Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | ‘Shaping the Lives of a New Generation’ In its digital program of discussion and presentation today (December 1), the Financial Times and McKinsey & Company have named Bloomberg News journalist Sarah Frier the winner of the 2020 Business Book of the Year Award for No Filter: The Inside Story of How Instagram Transformed Business, Celebrity, and Our Culture.

Author Sarah Frier speaks during the Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year award presentation.

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