John Perry is technical director of the Data Journalism Team at The Atlanta-Journal Constitution. He has more than 25 years of experience as a data journalist working at The Oklahoman newspaper in Oklahoma City, the investigative journalism nonprofit Center for Public Integrity, and since 2008 at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Perry started at the AJC as a member of the investigative team. He was part of a three-member reporting team that uncovered systematic cheating on state standardized tests throughout the Atlanta Public School District, an effort that won the 2012 Hillman Prize in Newspaper Journalism. The team went on to investigate cheating nationally and uncovered hundreds of districts with suspicious test result patterns similar to those found in Atlanta, a project that was a 2013 Goldsmith Prize finalist.