Sophie Warnes

data journalist Office for National Statistics

Sophie Warnes is Senior Data Journalist at the Office for National Statistics in Cardiff, UK.

Previously, she worked for Ampp3d (at The Daily Mirror), The Independent, ITN, the Wellcome Trust, NCVO, The Guardian and The Week. She has written about cats, migrants crossing the Med, benefit sanctions, gun control in the US, housing benefit millionaires, forced marriage, assisted suicide, and railway privatisation, among other topics. She has also worked for marketing, PR and content agencies as a data strategist.

She also writes a free weekly newsletter called Fair Warning about new data journalism stories, interesting data visualisations, and other forms of innovative storytelling.

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