Paul Bradshaw
Professor Paul Bradshaw is a data journalist and author, who leads the MA in Data Journalism at Birmingham City University.
He publishes the Online Journalism Blog (OJB), and was the co-founder of Help Me Investigate, an investigative journalism website funded by Channel 4 and Screen WM. He works as a data journalist with the BBC Shared Data Unit, and has written for journalism.co.uk, Press Gazette, the Guardian, Nieman Reports and the Poynter Institute in the US. From 2010-2015 he was also a Visiting Professor at City University’s School of Journalism in London.
Bradshaw is the author of the Online Journalism Handbook, now in its third edition, and the co-author of Mobile-First Journalism and Magazine Editing. He has also self-published a number of ebooks on data journalism and contributed to over a dozen books including Investigative Journalism (2nd Ed), The Data Journalism Handbook; Digital Investigative Journalism; Insights on Investigative Journalism; Specialist Reporting; Data Journalism: Mapping the Future; and Ethics for Digital Journalists: Emerging Best Practices.
Bradshaw has been listed in Journalism.co.uk’s list of the leading innovators in journalism and media and Poynter’s most influential people in social media. His awards include the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Award for Sport Reporting, the Wincott Award for Data Journalism of the Year, The Drum’s Editorial Innovation of the Year, and the Guardian Local award for Best Investigation.
One of Bradshaw’s MA students was Lyra McKee.
