Meet our Big Tech team

James Clayton (Big Tech editor)

James joined TBIJ after spending four years as the BBC’s North America technology correspondent. Before that he worked as a political producer and then correspondent for Newsnight – the BBC’s flagship news and current affairs programme

Niamh McIntyre (technology reporter)

Niamh is a reporter investigating powerful technology companies. Prior to joining the Bureau, Niamh spent four years as a data journalist at the Guardian, where she covered political advertising and dark money, local councils' secretive use of algorithms and online misinformation. She has also worked for Radar AI, a data-driven local news team within the Press Association, and the Independent.

Effie Webb (reporter)

Effie Webb is a reporter on TBIJ’s Big Tech team. Before joining the Bureau, she reported for Business Insider, investigating the global data worker industry behind artificial intelligence, automation’s impact on jobs, and how big tech’s race to monetise generative AI is reshaping society. She has reported on health and wellness misinformation, Tesla, health tech, and cybercrime across print and documentary. Her work has appeared in the Times, the Telegraph and the Independent. She is supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism.

Lucy Brisbane McKay (community organiser and impact producer)

Lucy is a community organiser and impact producer, working primarily with the Bureau Local and Big Tech teams. Her work is focused on working directly with people facing injustice and marginalisation to share their stories to inform and create change. Before joining the Bureau, Lucy led on media and communications at the charity INQUEST for more than seven years. She directly supported families bereaved by state related deaths to share their stories and campaign. She cocreated and presented the INQUEST podcast, Unlawful Killing. Lucy also supports and trains activists and charities on campaigning and media, including with the Sheila McKechnie Foundation. She has a background in journalism, including coediting the print magazine STRIKE!, which platformed radical voices. Lucy is Scottish and is currently based in Hastings.