Shannon Miller
Shannon Miller is a news reporter at The Mirror whose work sits at the junction of health, trauma and how people’s bodies and identities are judged in public life. Her reporting often turns on a single case or incident, using it to show the human impact of serious medical events and the pressures placed on marginalised groups. Across breaking news and first-person style pieces, she concentrates on health stories where race, appearance and stereotype shape the experience as much as the diagnosis or injury.
Trauma cases and narrowly missed tragedy
Miller reports on extreme medical emergencies and traumatic injuries, with a focus on how close they come to catastrophe. Her coverage of a 10-year-old boy who survived a foot-long meat skewer impaled through his face, narrowly missing his brain, is framed around the medical facts of the injury and the outcome of treatment. The piece uses the shock of the incident to underline the skill of emergency care and the resilience required of patients and families in the aftermath. In another health story, she writes about a holidaymaker who first thought she had routine gym aches in Magaluf before discovering a far more sinister cause, showing how easily serious conditions can be mistaken for everyday discomfort. Her health reporting returns to this pattern: ordinary scenarios that reveal severe underlying risk once the full medical story emerges.
Afro hair, stereotypes and mental load
Miller also writes candidly about Black women’s experiences of being judged for their hair and appearance, treating these stories as health and mental load issues rather than surface lifestyle topics. In her column on being judged for Afro hair, she describes Afro-textured hair as a source of constant scrutiny and explains how that scrutiny becomes a mental burden Black women often carry. She connects the daily comments and workplace perceptions around Afro hair to stress, self-image and the effort required to navigate spaces where Eurocentric standards dominate. In her piece responding to the “Ginga Jay” rant, she argues that Black women continually shoulder the weight of racial stereotypes, using the incident to show how quickly public discourse turns their bodies and behaviour into symbols. These columns treat stereotype and discrimination as health-adjacent concerns, linking identity, appearance and mental strain rather than separating them into different beats.
News desk health stories across digital platforms
Miller works on the news desk at The Mirror, filing health-related and social-issue stories into the wider news agenda rather than as standalone service features. Her reporting is regularly picked up by major digital platforms and partner titles, with bylines and syndications appearing on outlets such as MSN, Yahoo News UK, the Daily Express and the Daily Star. This distribution gives her case-driven health and trauma coverage a broad audience, carrying stories about medical emergencies and Black women’s mental load far beyond a single masthead. The combination of news-desk positioning and wide syndication means her work shapes how everyday readers encounter health narratives that centre injury, identity and the cumulative effect of stereotypes on well-being.
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Alex Storey
Alex Storey is a journalist at LBC whose work is driven by specific cases that test professional conduct and accountability in health and the public sector. He covers health as his main beat, focusing on the point where individual decisions by clinicians or officials meet public trust in institutions. His reporting is incident-first and case-led, using concrete episodes to show how rules, ethics and policy work in real life. Recent pieces include a disciplinary case where a nurse was struck off after linking a patient’s cancer to Covid jabs, and coverage of civil servants being “paid to play Grand Theft Auto” as “lived experience” training. Across these stories, he examines how professionals, regulators and officials explain their decisions, and what that reveals about trust, responsibility and the standards expected of people in positions of authority.
Alexandra Thompson
Alexandra Thompson is an assistant news editor focused on health who treats health claims as hypotheses to be tested rather than messages to be repeated. She works at New Scientist, combining editing with frontline reporting on ageing brains, cognitive health, chronic illness, contested treatments and infectious disease. Her beat centres on how neuroscience and psychology intersect with everyday health choices and on how scientific findings translate into real-world outcomes for people living with illness. She examines lifestyle advice, rehabilitation programmes and outbreak guidance against current evidence, clarifying risk without overstating it and giving space to controversy without sensationalising it. Alongside written news she appears in audio and video formats, bringing the same clear, news-driven approach to live discussions and helping shape the daily health agenda while keeping a tight focus on evidence and impact.
Alice Wilkinson
Alice Wilkinson investigates how everyday habits, products and routines shape sleep and long-term wellbeing, using test-driven health features to separate hype from real benefit. She holds a senior role on The Telegraph’s health features team, writing and shaping consumer-focused coverage that blends personal trial with clear expert evidence. Her core beat is sleep as a practical, solvable part of daily life, from detailed comparisons of magnesium supplements to service pieces on how sleeping position affects health over time. She treats supplements as a crowded, over-claimed market that demands careful testing and clear-eyed reporting. Alongside long-form features she writes weekly health desk dispatches on sleep, stress and concentration. Across her work she combines substantial self-testing, specialist insight and plain, unfussy prose to give readers measurable, realistic changes they can make.
Ally Head
Ally Head connects performance-focused fitness reporting with women’s health, sustainability and relationships, using her own endurance training and health history to stress-test trends against expert guidance. She is Senior Health, Sustainability and Relationships Editor at Marie Claire UK, where she shapes the health agenda across training, wellbeing and conscious living and writes and commissions news, topical features and SEO-led long-form pieces. A ten-time marathoner and Boston-qualifying runner, she focuses on structured, realistic training plans, strength and conditioning for women who run, and performance longevity. Her women’s health work centres on hormones, chronic conditions and fact versus fiction wellness claims. She also covers sustainability as conscious living and relationships, mental resilience and lifestyle features, favouring plain language, lived experience, specialist commentary and clear, repeatable routines. She has previously produced similar content for Women’s Health, Stylist, Glamour and Grazia.