Sabrina Miller
Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday
Her portfolio from the past 12 months includes a heartbreaking sit-down interview with former Israeli hostage Hagar Brodutch, who was kidnapped from her home in Kibbutz Kfar Azar during the October 7 attacks and held in Gaza with four young children for more than 50 days.
She was eventually released in a hostage exchange ceasefire deal.
Using her impressive network of contacts Sabrina became one of the first British reporters to secure a coveted, exclusive chat with one of the released hostages.
She flew to Israel to meet Hagar, who for the first time shared agonising details of life inside captivity, including how she was locked in a dark 12 square metre room with four young children who would fight each other for scraps of food and cry constantly. Since day one of the devastating terror attack on Israel, Sabrina has amplified the victims' stories by interviewing both survivors and families of hostages.
In particular she helped craft The Mail on Sunday’s award-winning front page on October 8, the day after the atrocities, headlined ‘Don’t Kill Me’, which depicted the brutal abduction of Noa Argmanai from the Nova music festival.
In May Sabrina also travelled to war-torn Ukraine, and visited Mykolaiv, Kyiv and Lviv to interview men dodging the military draft by fleeing the country, falsifying their papers or hiding from recruitment officers.
Taking a multimedia approach to her reporting, Sabrina produced a 2,000-word double-page spread and an accompanying documentary-style video to give an insight into Ukraine’s enormous military challenges as well as the painful human cost of the conflict. Sabrina produced this in-depth piece of journalism in challenging circumstances - under constant threat of rocket attack, during power cuts, surrounded by military checkpoints and in a country to which the Foreign Office advises against all travel.
One of her key interviews was interrupted by missile sirens, and on several nights she was forced to flee her hotel room and run to a bomb shelter. Sabrina has also broken an enormous number of high-impact exclusives and conducted a series of complicated investigations.
This included a piece into the fringe ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect Neturei Karta, whose London-based members have found themselves on the frontlines of pro-Palestine activism. Sabrina spent several hours grilling the group’s leaders about their links with terrorist groups as well as their offensive views, which include that the Holocaust was punishment from God inflicted on Jews because of their bad behaviour. She also tracked down and gained the trust of a former member of the sect who detailed the severe abuse she experienced while being a woman inside this ultra-conservative community. This included being shunned by her family for refusing to play with dolls and being forced to sleep in the garden.