Carl J. Miller

Education Miller studied history at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 2008, and war studies at King's College London where he was awarded a Master of Arts (MA) degree in 2009.

Career and research Miller's research investigates the pitfalls and promises of the Information Age. His interests include politics and technology, cybercrime, war, journalism, the rise of the hackers, the threat of hate speech, the effects of automation and how social and political power is changing. With Bartlett, Miller is a co-author of Truth, Lies and the Internet, a report on young people's critical thinking online, and The Power of Unreason, an investigation of conspiracy theories, extremism and counter-terrorism.

Miller serves as an expert advisor on social media for the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the external social media expert for the Civil Contingencies Secretariat (CCS) of the Government of the United Kingdom, a member of the Independent Digital Ethics Panel for Policing (IDEPP), and an external advisor on the cross-governmental review on the use of data science within the public sector. Miller is a regular keynote speaker at conferences and has spoken at events and venues such as TEDx in Athens, Thinking Digital, and the Alan Turing Institute in London. which analyses power in the digital age. First published in 2018, the book tells the stories of people working in media, technology, warfare, business, politics and crime. employees of Facebook and Google in Silicon Valley soldiers of the 77th Brigade in the British Army working in information warfare and psychological warfare. members of the Defence and Security Media Advisory Committee (DSMA) founders of the Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

The series reached #1 Apple Podcast charts in Australia, the UK, Canada, the US and New Zealand. Often the discovery was that the kill orders were the result of gendered violence and coercive control. It was described as "the best of its kind since Serial's first series". In December 2024 The Guardian named Kill List #1 in its top 20 podcasts of the year. It also won Best Podcast at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards in 2025.

Awards

The Best Podcast of 2024 by the Guardian Best Podcast (2025) - Broadcasting Press Guild Podcast of the Year and Best Serialised Podcast (2025) - True Crime Awards Edward R Murrow Award for Journalism (2025) Gold Signal Awards for True Crime and Sound Design Gold in True Crime, and Podcast of the Year - British Podcast Awards