Paul Lewis (born 1981) is head of investigations at ''

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''. He was previously the newspaper's Washington Correspondent, San Francisco Bureau Chief and Associate Editor and has won 12 awards, mostly for investigative reporting. He is the co-author of Undercover; The True Story of Britain's Secret Police. His eight-part series 'Anywhere But Washington' explored what America's most overlooked peoples and places revealed about a nation divided in 2016. He was President of Cambridge University Student Union in 2002-2003. Lewis joined ''The Guardian'' as a trainee in 2005, and was Stern Fellow at ''

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'' in 2007. Early in his career, he became known for his award-winning investigation of the

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at the 2009 G20 summit protests in London. In August 2010 Lewis became head of ''The Guardian'' "multimedia special projects team" which aims to find "new angles on breaking news stories, including using multimedia and crowdsourcing". Lewis was named "Reporter of the Year" in 2010 at the

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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 Bevins Prize (2009) for outstanding investigative journalism. The Bevins Trust said of his investigation: At TEDxThessaloniki in April 2011 he gave a talk on how

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and social media had helped him report on the Ian Tomlinson case and the unlawful killing of Jimmy Mubenga. In 2013, he received the Innovation Award by the

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for his project 'Reading the Riots'. In 2014, he was the joint winner of the Reporter of the Year award at the British Press Awards, with his colleague, Rob Evans. In 2018, he appeared in the movie The Brink, interviewing former White House chief strategist

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. His film, How Steve Bannon’s Far-Right Movement Stalled in Europe, 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

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, which Lewis said raised issues of "genuine public interest".. In 2022, Lewis' team was a joint winner of the

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for their contribution to The Pegasus Project.

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'' * 1981 births Living people Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Place of birth missing (living people) The Guardian journalists {{UK-journalist-stub