Cheryl Phillips is the data enterprise editor at The Seattle Times, where she supervises efforts to mine data for stories and interactive online features. She also has served as deputy investigations editor and has been an investigative reporter at the paper, where she has worked since 2002. She is president of Investigative Reporters and Editors, a nonprofit organization focused on improving investigative and watchdog journalism.

In Seattle, she has twice been a member of reporting teams that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Phillips reported and wrote for the “Your Courts, Their Secrets” series, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer in investigative reporting in 2007. She also was part of a team that reported on the Washington, D.C., sniper suspects in 2002. That coverage was a Pulitzer finalist in the breaking news category.

Previously, she has worked as computer-assisted reporting editor for USA Today’s sports section, as a CAR projects editor at The Detroit News, covered local government and the state legislature at the Great Falls Tribune in Montana and was a reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where she covered stadium issues of the Texas Rangers baseball team and wrote about then-team owner George W. Bush.