Eli Murray

Eli Murray is a data reporter at the Tampa Bay Times, one of FRONTLINE’s inaugural Local Journalism Initiative partners. He’s a self-taught programmer who uses code to create graphics and crunch numbers on statewide and national investigations.

In 2018, Eli had the opportunity to work on a collaboration between the Times and a local news station, 10News WTSP. The resulting investigation shed light on questionable spending by political campaigns years or even decades after the candidate left office. The story triggered the Federal Election Commission to begin reviewing dormant campaign accounts and the team that worked on the project was awarded an Alfred I...