Shanna Jones is a data journalist for the Office for National Statistics (UK).
She graduated from Cardiff University's Computational and Data Journalism MSc at the end of 2020. During the course, Shanna learned python for data analysis, web application development, data analysis, visualisation, OSINT, and more.
Prior to the course, she worked as a freelance journalist in the UK, Europe and West Africa. She reported for British and US media from sex worker safe houses in Freetown, the Red Light District in Amsterdam, Calais refugee camp and the depths of the British Land Registry. Shanna investigated the exploitation of Sierra Leonean sex workers by NGO staff, depicted grassroots refugee solidarity movements and participated in data-led investigations into offshore money.
Highlights of her freelance career include interviewing the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Denis Mukwege, for the Economist and being selected by The Money Trail fund to carry out a cross-border investigation into illicit finance.
