Professor Paul Bradshaw is an
online journalist and
blogger, who leads the MA in Data Journalism[1] at
Birmingham City University. He manages his own blog, the Online Journalism Blog[2] (OJB), and was the co-founder of Help Me Investigate,[3] an
investigative journalism website funded by
Channel 4 and
Screen WM.[4][5] He has written for
journalism.co.uk,[6]Press Gazette, The Guardian's Data Blog, Nieman Reports[7] and the Poynter Institute in the US. From 2010 to 2015 he was also a visiting professor at
City University's School of Journalism in London. From 2015 to 2020 he worked with the BBC England data unit and since 2020 he has worked with the BBC Shared Data Unit.
Bradshaw is the author of the Online Journalism Handbook,[8][9] and co-author with
Steve Hill of Mobile-First Journalism.[10] He also co-wrote the 3rd edition of Magazine Editing with
John Morrish.[11] He has self-published a number of ebooks on data journalism and Snapchat[12] and contributed to books including Investigative Journalism (2nd Ed),[13]Web Journalism: A New Form of Citizenship;[14]Face the Future;[15]Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives;[16]Specialist Reporting;[17]Data Journalism: Mapping the Future;[18] and Ethics for Digital Journalists: Emerging Best Practices.[19]
Adrian Monck ranked Bradshaw second in his list of "Britain's Top Ten Journo-Bloggers" (2007),.[20] He was placed thirty-sixth in the Birmingham Post's "Power 50" list of 2009[21] and listed again in the Media section of the 'Power 250' list in 2016.[22] He has been listed in Journalism.co.uk's list of the leading innovators in journalism and media[23] and Poynter's most influential people in social media.[24]
In 2010 he was shortlisted for Multimedia Publisher of the Year[25] and in 2011 ranked 9th in
PeerIndex's list of the most influential UK journalists on Twitter.[26] In 2016 he was part of a team that won the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards.[27]
Bradshaw is also a graduate of
Birmingham City University (then the University of Central England), where he studied
media from 1995 to 1998.[28]
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