Claire Miller
Claire Miller is an award-winning investigative data journalist. She has worked across national and regional newspapers in the UK, with more than a decade’s experience of using data skills to dig out data, find stories, and create visualisations.
She played a major role in the development of regional data journalism, launching the WalesOnline Datastore in 2011, winning the Digital Award at the Regional Press Awards in 2012. Until recently, she worked as the Editor of the Reach Data Unit, having been involved in building the unit from a small team of two journalists to a multi-award-winning team that includes reporters, developers, and designers.
Her years of working with data mean she’s built up extensive knowledge of the tools and techniques to source data, clean, and analyse it, as well as an understanding of how to create graphics, maps, and interactives.
She’s also an enthusiastic sender of Freedom of Information requests (possibly a little too enthusiastic if you ask the ICL), and has used requests to get the data that makes front page stories on national papers . She’s doggedly pursued access to the information, up to winning against the Information Commissioner in court.
