Joe Pinner
Scott Trust Bursary Trainee 2025 26 at The Guardian
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Pinner is a bilingual Japanese/British multimedia journalist and 2025/26 Scott Trust Bursary Trainee at The Guardian with 11 years’ experience across print and online news, documentary filmmaking, audio production and photojournalism. A Lyra McKee Fellow with formal training in data journalism, OSINT and FOIA use, he combines investigative rigour with creative storytelling, from long-form features in Yokogao to producing documentaries on Tokyo’s underground football “ultras.” He holds a First Class BSc in Politics and International Relations from the University of Bristol and is pursuing an MA in Journalism, blending academic background with practical international reporting. Previously Tokyo-based, he has a track record of sourcing hard-to-reach interviewees, coordinating shoots in challenging environments, and narrating sports documentaries for global audiences.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, Journalism, Master of Arts - MA, Journalism at Leeds Trinity UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Politics and International Relations, Bachelor of Science - BS, Politics and International Relations at University of Bristol
Japanese, English
Github Skills (69)
python10
olap10
duckdb10
compression10
sql-query10
big-data10
linux10
multimodal10
sql10
rust10
embedded-database10
database10
analytics10
sql-database10
dataframe10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
joseph-isaacs/PartII-Project
Nov 2016 - Jan 2023
Contributions:72 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 2 months
vortex-data/ClickBench
May 2025 - Aug 2025
ClickBench: a Benchmark For Analytical Databases
Contributions:12 PRs, 28 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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