Paul Bradshaw leads the MA in Online Journalism at Birmingham City University, which he established in 2009, and is a visiting professor in online journalism at City University London. With a background in magazine and website management, he publishes the Online Journalism Blog, described by UK Press Gazette as one of the country’s “most influential journalism blogs”. He is also the founder of the investigative journalism crowdsourcing site Help Me Investigate, which was shortlisted in 2010 for Multimedia Publisher of the Year and won the Talk About Local Investigation of the Year award the same year.

Paul has been ranked the UK’s 4th ‘most visible person on the internet’ by NowPublic, and the UK’s 7th most influential UK journalist on Twitter by PeerIndex. In 2010 he was listed on both Journalism.co.uk’s list of leading innovators in media, and the US Poynter Institute’s list of the 35 most influential people in social media.

Paul’s ‘Model for the 21st Century Newsroom’ and ‘BASIC Principles of Online Journalism’ series have formed the basis for newsroom operations and journalism education around the world, where they have been translated into a number of languages. He is the co-author of the Online Journalism Handbook with former Financial Times web editor Liisa Rohumaa, and of Magazine Editing (3rd Edition) with John Morrish. Other books which Bradshaw has contributed to include Investigative Journalism (second edition), Web Journalism: A New Form of Citizenship; and Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives. He has also branched into ebook publishing with the publication of Scraping for Journalists on Leanpub.com. More recently he has written reports on Social Media and the News for the Open Society Foundation, and an update of the 21st Century Newsroom model for the BBC College of Journalism.

In addition to teaching and writing, Paul acts as a consultant and trainer to a number of organisations on social media and data journalism, including the Centre for Investigative Journalism, the Balkan Investigative Reporters Network, Sky, Trinity Mirror, Haymarket, Open University, UBM, Reed Business Information, Mirror.co.uk, Press Association and Telegraph. You can find him on Twitter .

2012 – Forthcoming: Wiki Journalism, in New Age Journalism
2012 – Forthcoming: Media Reporting, in Specialist Journalism
2012 – Anatomy of an Investigation, in Online Journalism: Global Perspectives, Local Practices
2012 – Model for the 21st Century Newsroom: Redux (Leanpub)
2012 – 8,000 Holes: How the 2012 Olympic Torch Relay Lost its Way, with Carol Miers (Leanpub)
2012 – Scraping for Journalists (Leanpub)
2011 – Has Investigative Journalism Found Its Feet Online? in Investigative Journalism: Dead or Alive?
2011 – Online Journalism Handbook, with Liisa Rohumaa (Pearson)
2011 – Magazine Editing (3rd Edition), with John Morrish (Routledge)
2011 – Crowdsourcing Investigative Journalism, in Face The Truth
2010 – Blogging Journalists: The Writing on the Wall, in Web Journalism: A New Form of Citizenship?
2009 – Wiki Journalism, in Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives
2008 – Blogs and Investigative Journalism in Investigative Journalism (2nd ed)

2009 – Book review, Search Engine Society, Havalais, Journalism Studies
2008 – ‘When journalists blog: how it changes what they do’, Nieman Reports vol. 62, no.4 Winter
2007 – Book review, Online News, Hall, Journalism Studies
2007 – Book review, Convergence Journalism, Kolodzy, Journalism Studies
2006 – Book review, Feature Writing – A Practical Introduction, Pape & Featherstone, Journalism Studies
2006 – Book review, Digitizing the News, Boczkowski, Journalism Studies
2004 – Book review, The Cyberspace Handbook, Whittaker
2004 – Book review, Designing for Newspapers and Magazines, Frost, Journalism Studies

Papers

2012 – The transparency opportunity: holding power to account – or making power accountable? October, Transparency and Accountability in Government and Media, The Rothermere American Institute, Oxford
2012 – Data Management for Journalists, September, Digital Publishing Conference, Periodical Publishers Association
2012 – Stories and Streams: overcoming the student as consumer mindset through peer-to-peer learning, July, Brighton University
2012 – Data: new sources, new possibilities, July, BBC Data Day, London
2012 – Journalism is like gas, June, University of Amsterdam
2012 – Stories and Streams: teaching collaborative journalism, May, Winchester University
2011 – YANA [You Are Not Alone], November, Coventry Conversations, Coventry University
2010 – New information, new journalists, October, ESCACC, Barcelona
2010 – ‘Crowdsourcing investigative journalism’, Facing The Future, November, Coventry University
2010 – ‘A Journalism Curriculum for the 21st Century’, September, European Centre of Journalism, Amsterdam
2010 – ‘Model for a 21st Century Newsroom’, August, Professional Online Journalism: Chances and Challenges, UTAR, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2010 – ‘Anatomy of an investigation’, Journalism’s Next Top Model, June, Westminster University
2009 – ‘Model for a 21st Century Newsroom’, February, Norwegian Institute of Journalism
2009 – ‘New approaches to research in a digital age’, Association of Journalism Education conference, January, Birmingham
2008 – ‘Blogging journalists: the writing on the wall’, End of Journalism conference, October, University of Bedfordshire
2008 – ‘Distributed Journalism’, Glocal 2.0, May, New York University Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
2007 – ‘Are wikis the new blogs?’, Future of Newspapers Conference, September, Cardiff
2007 – ‘Online journalism technologies: a case study’, New Researcher Conference, September, Birmingham
2007 – ‘Blogs and journalism’, 8th Vienna Globalisation Symposium, May, Vienna
2007 – ‘Blogs and wikis in journalism education’, AJE Conference paper, January, Huddersfield
2006 – ‘Paradigms in online journalism teaching’, New Researcher Conference, September, Birmingham