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method now available to a modern journalist, online and in print, to keep pushing and nudging at the story until he established what had really happened. His work led to internal and independent police inquiry, extensive and international public comment, and has changed the way police behave in potential riot situations, and how they receive and investigate complaints into such incidents. All in all, his story was a triumph for the assertion of civil liberty, as well as a revelation about policing conduct.
727: 331:"Paul Lewis, president of Cambridge University Students Union, after the Government revealed it's plan to allow universities to treble their fees after officials admitted students could soon expect to graduate with debts of 15,000. * Lewis said : "Cambridge already has a problem with attracting students from lower income backgrounds and that problem is going to be exacerbated. It is a disaster for access Stock Photo - Alamy" 674: 274:, won the 2019 DIG Award for investigative documentaries, which was praised by the jury for "its innovative point-of-view investigation, for its puncturing of inflated media myths, and for its original, research-driven exposure of a possible electoral crime in progress". In 2021, his team reported on the 216:
Paul uncovered the truth by persistently questioning and challenging the police account, by following up on the family, and assiduously garnering eye-witness evidence, until finally he obtained incontrovertible video evidence from a bystander who filmed the incident. In achieving this Paul used every
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for his work exposing details of the death of Ian Tomlinson at the 2009 G20 summit protests. This work was also recognised with the
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explored what America's most overlooked peoples and places revealed about a nation divided in 2016.
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in 2007. Early in his career, he became known for his award-winning investigation of the
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and social media had helped him report on the Ian Tomlinson case and the
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At TEDxThessaloniki in April 2011 he gave a talk on how
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How Steve Bannon’s Far-Right Movement Stalled in Europe
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Lewis was named "Reporter of the Year" in 2010 at the
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Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police
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Journalist
The Guardian
Laurence Stern Fellow
Bevins Prize
BPA
EPP
BPA
The Guardian
King's College, Cambridge
Cambridge Students' Union
Stern Fellow
The Washington Post
death of Ian Tomlinson
2009 G20 summit protests
British Press Awards
Bevins Prize
citizen journalism
unlawful killing of Jimmy Mubenga
European Press Prize
British Press Awards
Rob Evans
The Brink
Steve Bannon
Pandora Papers
George Polk Award
"Guardian's head of investigations: 'In times of crisis you need more accountability journalism, not less'"


"Paul Lewis, ICIJ"

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