Mill Media is delighted to announce Cameron Barr, the former Senior Managing Editor of The Washington Post, has joined the company as Investigations Editor. His appointment signals our ambition to become a leading centre of investigative journalism in the UK.

Cameron left The Washington Post in 2023 after spending 19 years at the paper. During his time at the Post, he oversaw reporting teams that won 13 Pulitzer Prizes and led some of the newsroom’s most ambitious projects, including developing its innovative database tracking fatal police shootings, and a 2022 investigative series on the fentanyl crisis.

As Mill Media’s first Investigations Editor, Cameron will work with our reporters across the country on some of the company’s biggest stories. His experience of running complex investigative projects will allow us to produce more of the in-depth reporting that is so badly needed in the cities we cover.

Cameron’s appointment builds on our recent investigative success. Two Mill Media investigations were listed for Private Eye’s 2025 Paul Foot Award, and our series of stories on the University of Greater Manchester earlier this year has led to a major fraud investigation by the police and the suspension of top university officials. A 2024 Manchester Mill investigation led to the resignation of Andy Burnham’s adviser Sacha Lord.

Joshi Herrmann, founder of Mill Media, said: “Cameron is well known among journalists as one of the most impressive editors around, and as soon as I found out that he was living in the UK, I gave him a call and tried to persuade him to join us.

“Having someone of his skill and experience working with our writers will make a massive difference as we try to build on our record of publishing genuinely groundbreaking reporting. We all know that local journalism has been starved of the resources to do investigative work, so to have a figure like Cameron entering the fray is extremely exciting.”

Cameron Barr said: “Story by story and city by city, Joshi Herrmann and his talented team are reviving rigorously reported, compellingly written investigative journalism at the local level in the UK. It’s a thrill to join a growing company with an already impressive track record of holding power to account and to support Joshi’s commitment to give reporters the time and resources they need to do consequential work.”

As well as welcoming Cameron, Mill Media plans to further strengthen its reporting team in the coming months, including hiring staff reporters and regular contributors in Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham and London. As of today, we are opening applications for staff writer roles on The Mill and The Dispatch and we expect to make further hires later this year.

Cameron became The Washington Post’s Managing Editor for news and features in 2015, overseeing the paper’s eight news and features departments. Before that, he served as National Editor, National Security Editor and Middle East Editor. He spent a decade as a foreign correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, reporting from Jerusalem and Tokyo. He has won the Overseas Press Club award, has been a co-winner of the National Magazine Award and was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

When Cameron left The Washington Post, the newspaper’s legendary Executive Editor Martin Baron said: “He has a strong sense of story, he is dogged in pursuing stories, he pushes people to be ambitious in getting the facts and he also pushes them in being ambitious in how they present the facts.”

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