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Crime correspondent promoted to group-wide investigations role

Claire WildeA regional daily’s crime correspondent has been promoted to a group-wide data and investigations role.

Claire Wilde, of the Yorkshire Post, has been appointed JPIMedia’s news editor of data and investigations, and will take up the post in the new year.

In her new position, Claire will continue to be based at the Post’s building in Leeds.

Prior to taking on the crime correspondent job in March this year, she spent four years as City Hall reporter at the Bradford Telegraph & Argus.

From November 2017 to February 2018, Claire spent three months on secondment with the BBC’s shared data unit in Birmingham.

The unit was set up as part of the BBC’s local news partnership with the regional press industry, and Claire, pictured, posted on Twitter that she “genuinely would not have landed” her new job if it was not for the time she had spent there.

Announcing her new role, she wrote: “As of next year, I’ll be JPIMedia’s News Editor of Data and Investigations. Still based at the Yorkshire Post building, they can’t get rid of me that easily.

“It does mean I will have to learn to say the word ‘investigative’ without tripping over my own tongue. (I have long given up on ‘quantitative’).”

JPIMedia’s predecessor Johnston Press launched a central investigations team, involving journalists from across the company’s titles, in 2016.

The unit was led by Aasma Day, of the Lancashire Post, before she left the company to become the Huffington Post’s North of England correspondent earlier this year.