Keith Cooper

Keith Cooper is a journalist, researcher, and writer

Journalist, researcher, and writer.

-Experienced and award-winning investigative journalist, writer and researcher, specialising in social housing, social and mental health care, and local government.

-Written for the i, The Guardian, the Sunday Mirror, the Spectator, Private Eye, and professional magazines, including, Inside Housing, Architects Journal, Health Service Journal, The Doctor, Local Government Chronicle, Construction News. Author of thinktank reports (ResPublica) and journal articles.

-Investigations picked up by national press, TV, and radio, and cited in Parliament, textbooks, reports, and academic papers.

-Winner of the News Journalist of the Year and Scoop of the Year at the International Building Press Journalism Awards 2024. Mind Media Award publication of the year (2018) and Medical Journalists’ Awards mental health story of the year (2018).

-Held senior posts in magazines, including acting editor at Local Government Chronicle, News Manager at Health Service Journal, and Deputy Editor at Inside Housing magazine.

-Reported on complex personal, legal, and financial stories, across range of public policy areas.

-Worked on campaigns for large political and professional institution (British Medical Association)