John Pring is the author of three books: Silent Victims, Longcare Survivors: The Biography of a Care Scandal, and The Department: How A Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence.
He is a disabled journalist (he is autistic), and is the founder of Disability News Service, a news agency that, since 2009, has focused on stories that affect the lives of disabled people, such as discrimination, independent living, benefits, poverty and human rights. He is specialist advisor and co-editor of Museum of Austerity, an award-winning mixed reality installation produced by English Touring Theatre, the National Theatre’s Immersive Storytelling Studio, and Trial & Error Studio. He is also co-creator of the Deaths by Welfare timeline, and was associate producer on an award-winning Dispatches documentary, The Truth About Disability Benefits.
