T. Christian Miller

Miller grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. His mother, Linda Miller, was a member of the local school board who focused on integration issues.{{cite web|title=The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC)|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2482&dat=20030814&id=BlZJAAAAIBAJ&pg=2380,5468319|access-date=27 October 2013}} His father, Donald H. Miller, was a research biochemist at the Medical University of South Carolina.{{cite journal |last1=Janech |first1=Michael G. |last2=Fitzgibbon |first2=Wayne R. |last3=Chen |first3=Ruihua |last4=Nowak |first4=Mark W. |last5=Miller |first5=Donald H. |last6=Paul |first6=Richard V. |last7=Ploth |first7=David W. |title=Molecular and functional characterization of a urea transporter from the kidney of the Atlantic stingray |journal=American Journal of Physiology. Renal Physiology |date=1 May 2003 |volume=284 |issue=5 |pages=F996–F1005 |doi=10.1152/ajprenal.00174.2002 |pmid=12388386 |doi-access=}} Miller graduated from Bishop England High School.

Miller began his career in journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. He majored in English and minored in French while becoming the University Editor of the Daily Californian, an independent campus newspaper.{{cite web|title=Daily Californian |url=http://donate.dailycal.org/2012/07/16/t-christian-miller-propublica/ |access-date=27 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029184142/http://donate.dailycal.org/2012/07/16/t-christian-miller-propublica/ |archive-date=October 29, 2013 }} After college, he worked for the St. Petersburg Times, now the Tampa Bay Times.{{cite web|title=John S. Knight Fellowship|url=http://knight.stanford.edu/fellows/class-of-2012/t-christian-miller/}}

In 1997, he went to work for the Los Angeles Times. While at that paper, he covered local, national and international news, opening the newspaper's first bureau in Bogota, Colombia. Miller was briefly held prisoner by the leftist Colombian guerrilla group known as the FARC, or Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia,{{cite news|title=A Captive at Mercy of Colombian Rebels|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-mar-02-mn-30749-story.html|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=2 March 2002|first=T. Christian|last=Miller}} an episode later documented in a [https://www.vice.com/en/article/i-was-kidnapped-by-a-colombian-guerrilla-army/ short animated news feature].{{cite web|last=Ching|first=Carrie|title=I was Kidnapped by a Colombian Guerrilla Army|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/i-was-kidnapped-by-a-colombian-guerrilla-army/|publisher=Vice Magazine}} Two of his reporters were later held captive by a second Colombian leftist group, the ELN, or Ejército de Liberación Nacional.{{cite news|title=San Francisco Chronicle|url=http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/2-journalists-for-L-A-Times-abducted-by-2677429.php|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|date=24 January 2003|first=T. Christian|last=Miller}}

Miller's investigative reporting in Colombia uncovered that a contractor for an American oil company, Occidental Petroleum, had helped to coordinate the bombing of civilians by the Colombian Air Force of a small town in northeastern Colombia which left 17 dead.{{cite news|title=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-mar-17-mn-33272-story.html | first=T. Christian | last=Miller|date=17 March 2002}} His coverage of the Santo Domingo bombing led to the U.S. suspending military aid to the Colombian Air Force{{cite web|title=Common Dreams|url=http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1116-07.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060321172635/http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1116-07.htm|archive-date=2006-03-21}} and to a judgement by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemning the Colombian government.{{cite web|title=Colombia Reports|date=19 December 2012 |url=http://colombiareports.co/human-rights-court-condemns-colombia-for-santo-domingo-bombing/}}

Miller became a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times based in Washington, D.C. While there, Miller served as the only journalist in the U.S. dedicated exclusively to covering the Iraqi reconstruction.{{cite web|title=Amazon Authors| website=Amazon |url=https://www.amazon.com/T.-Christian-Miller/e/B001IO8EBE/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1}} Miller published a book on the subject, Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives and Corporate Greed in Iraq.{{cite book|last=Miller|first=Thomas|title=Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives and Corporate Greed in Iraq|year=2006|publisher=Little, Brown|isbn=0316166286|url=https://www.amazon.com/T.-Christian-Miller/e/B001IO8EBE}}

In 2008, Miller was one of the founding employees of ProPublica, an independent, non-profit start-up dedicated to investigative reporting. While at ProPublica, Miller has published investigative projects with various news organizations, including the Los Angeles Times,{{cite news|title=Injured War Zone Contractors Fight to Get Care From AIG and Other Insurers|url=https://www.propublica.org/article/injured-war-zone-contractors-fight-to-get-care-from-aig-416|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=16 April 2009}} The New York Times,{{cite news|title=At Siemens, Bribery Was Just a Line Item|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/business/worldbusiness/21siemens.html?_r=0|newspaper=The New York Times|date=20 December 2008|first1=Siri|last1=Schubert|first2=T. Christian|last2=Miller}} The Washington Post,{{cite news|title=Sometimes It's Not Your War, But You Sacrifice Anyway|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/14/AR2009081401665.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130419004430/http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2009-08-16/opinions/36883665_1_foreign-workers-civilian-workers-defense-base-act|url-status=live|archive-date=19 April 2013|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=16 August 2009|first=T. Christian|last=Miller}} Newsweek,{{cite news|title=$6 Billion Later, Afghan Cops Aren't Ready to Serve|url=https://www.propublica.org/article/six-billion-dollars-later-the-afghan-national-police-cant-begin-to-do|newspaper=Newsweek|date=20 March 2010}} Salon,{{cite news|title=Injured abroad, neglected at home|url=http://www.salon.com/2009/12/17/contractors_2/|newspaper=Salon|date=17 December 2009}} National Public Radio,{{cite news|title=With Traumatic Brain Injuries, Soldiers Face Battle For Care|url=https://www.npr.org/2010/06/09/127542820/with-traumatic-brain-injuries-soldiers-face-battle-for-care|newspaper=National Public Radio|date=9 June 2010}} This American Life,{{cite news|title=Use Only As Directed|url=http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/505/use-only-as-directed|newspaper=This American Life|date=20 September 2013}} ABC News 20/20{{cite news|title=Bailed-Out AIG Pampers Execs While Denying, Delaying Claims of Contractors Injured in Iraq|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=7356654&page=1|newspaper=ABC 20/20|date=17 April 2008}} and PBS' Frontline.{{cite news|title=Black Money|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/blackmoney/|newspaper=PBS Frontline}}

Miller is a leading figure in innovation in journalism, especially in transparency, trust and data-driven journalism.{{cite web|title=Re-Engineering Journalism|url=http://knight.stanford.edu/talks-events/2012/knight-talk-t-christian-miller/|publisher=Stanford University}} He delivered the U.S. Army Creekmore Lecture in 2007, and has taught at the University of Southern California, Columbia University, Stanford University,{{cite web|title=Stanford University| website=YouTube | date=5 April 2013 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4DYtuUHFN4 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211217/x4DYtuUHFN4 |archive-date=2021-12-17 |url-status=live|access-date=27 October 2013}}{{cbignore}} the University of California at Berkeley and the College of Charleston. He spent a year at Stanford University as a Knight Fellow, studying transparency and new models of journalism.{{cite web|title=Re-Engineering Journalism|url=http://knight.stanford.edu/talks-events/2012/knight-talk-t-christian-miller/|publisher=Stanford University}} Miller has served as treasurer and board member of Investigative Reporters and Editors, or the IRE, the nation's largest organization of investigative journalists.

Miller has won numerous local, national and international awards. In 1999, he won the John B. Oakes Award for Environmental Journalism for his coverage of runaway growth in the Santa Monica Mountains. In 2004, he was awarded the Livingston Award for international reporting, one of the most competitive and prestigious reporting prizes in American journalism, for his coverage of children and war. In 2005, he won an Overseas Press Club award. In 2009, he won an Investigative Reporters and Editors award. In 2010, he won a George Polk award with Daniel Zwerdling of National Public radio for his work covering traumatic brain injuries in the U.S. military. In that same year, he was also given the Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting on private contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan.{{cite web|title=USC Annenberg|url=http://annenberg.usc.edu/News%20and%20Events/News/100222SeldenAnnc.aspx|access-date=27 October 2013}} In 2015, Miller, [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/person/marcela-gaviria/ Marcela Gaviria], and colleagues from ProPublica and Frontline were awarded two News & Documentary Emmy Awards,{{cite web|title=36th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards|url=http://emmyonline.com/news_36th_winners|access-date=20 October 2015}} the Robert F. Kennedy Center For Justice and Human Rights award for their work documenting the support given by the Firestone Company to Charles Taylor, Liberia's former president and a convicted war criminal, during that country's civil war.{{cite web|title=RFK Center|url=http://rfkcenter.org/who-we-are/awards/rfk-journalism-awards/}}t In 2016, Miller, along with Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project, won the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for an article on the Washington and Colorado serial rape cases.{{cite news |last=Bazelon |first=Emily |title=The Lesson Here Is Listen to the Victim |date=6 March 2018 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/books/review/a-false-report-t-christian-miller-ken-armstrong.html}}{{cite web |title=The 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/t-christian-miller-propublica-and-ken-armstrong-marshall-project |publisher=The Pulitzer Prizes, Columbia University |access-date=19 July 2019}} In 2020, he and several other ProPublica reporters shared the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting with members of The Seattle Times. With Megan Rose and Robert Faturechi, Miller had received the award for their report on United States Seventh Fleet accidents.{{cite web |title=National Reporting |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/209 |website=The Pulitzer Prizes |access-date=15 October 2020}}

• (with Ken Armstrong) {{cite book |title=A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America |date=2018 |publisher=Crown |location=New York |isbn=978-1-52-475993-3}}
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