Paul Bradshaw (journalist)

{{Short description|British online journalist, blogger and journalism academic}}

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Professor Paul Bradshaw is an online journalist and blogger, who leads the MA in Data Journalism[https://www.bcu.ac.uk/courses/data-journalism-ma-2023-24 Birmingham City University: MA Data Journalism] at Birmingham City University. He manages his own blog, the Online Journalism Blog[http://onlinejournalismblog.com Onlinejournalismblog.com] (OJB), and was the co-founder of Help Me Investigate,[http://helpmeinvestigate.com Helpmeinvestigate.com] an investigative journalism website funded by Channel 4 and Screen WM.{{Cite news | last = Kiss | first = Jemima | title = 4ip: Two new projects to help prop up local news | newspaper = The Guardian | location = London| date = 1 June 2009 | url = https://www.theguardian.com/media/pda/2009/jun/01/channel4-research1 | accessdate = 28 March 2010 }}{{Cite news | last = Blackaby | first = Anna | title = Funding for Birmingham City University journalism website | newspaper = Birmingham Post | publisher = Trinity Mirror Midlands | date = 2 June 2009 | url = http://www.birminghampost.net/birmingham-business/birmingham-business-news/creative-industries-news/2009/06/02/funding-for-birmingham-city-university-journalism-website-65233-23764617/ | accessdate = 28 March 2010 }} He has written for journalism.co.uk,{{Cite web | last = Bradshaw | first = Paul | title = Local online news is changing, but not fast enough | publisher = journalism.co.uk | date = 13 February 2008 | url = http://www.journalism.co.uk/6/articles/531022.php | accessdate = 28 March 2010 }} Press Gazette, The Guardian's Data Blog, Nieman Reports{{Cite web | last = Bradshaw | first = Paul | title = When Journalists Blog: How It Changes What They Do | work = Nieman Reports | publisher = Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard | date = 13 February 2008 | url = http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=100696 | accessdate = 29 July 2010 }} 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,[https://www.routledge.com/The-Online-Journalism-Handbook-Skills-to-Survive-and-Thrive-in-the-Digital/Bradshaw/p/book/9781138791565 Routledge: Online Journalism Handbook]{{Cite web | last = McAthy | first = Rachel | title = Online innovator to leave university post after 'complicated decision' |publisher= Journalism.co.uk | date = 20 July 2010 | url = http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2010/07/20/online-innovator-to-leave-university-post-after-complicated-decision/ | accessdate = 30 July 2010 }} and co-author with Steve Hill of Mobile-First Journalism.[https://www.routledge.com/Mobile-First-Journalism-Producing-News-for-Social-and-Interactive-Media/Hill-Bradshaw/p/book/9781138289314 Routledge: Mobile-First Journalism] He also co-wrote the 3rd edition of Magazine Editing with John Morrish.{{Cite web | title = Magazine Editing in print and online – 3rd edition | work = Taylor and Francis | publisher = sponpress.com | url = http://www.sponpress.com/books/details/9780415608350/ | accessdate = 29 June 2011 }} He has self-published a number of ebooks on data journalism and Snapchat{{Cite web|url=https://leanpub.com/u/paulbradshaw|title=Paul Bradshaw|website=leanpub.com|access-date=2016-12-15}} and contributed to books including Investigative Journalism (2nd Ed),[http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2007/10/24/blogs-and-investigative-journalism-draft-first-section/ Onlinejournalismblog.com] Web Journalism: A New Form of Citizenship;[https://www.amazon.com/dp/1845192796 Amazon.com] Face the Future;[https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1845494830 Amazon.co.uk] Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives;[http://citizenjournalism.me/the-book/section-three-future-challenges/chapter-20-wiki-journalism/ Citizenjournalism.me] Specialist Reporting;{{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Specialist-Journalism-Barry-Turner/dp/0415582857|title=Specialist Journalism|date=2012-12-14|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9780415582858|editor-last=Turner|editor-first=Barry|language=English}} Data Journalism: Mapping the Future;{{Cite web|url=http://www.abramis.co.uk/books/bookdetails.php?id=184549616|title=Data Journalism|website=www.abramis.co.uk|access-date=2016-12-15}} and Ethics for Digital Journalists: Emerging Best Practices.{{Cite web|url=https://www.routledge.com/Ethics-for-Digital-Journalists-Emerging-Best-Practices/Zion-Craig/p/book/9780415858854|title=Ethics for Digital Journalists: Emerging Best Practices (Paperback) - Routledge|website=Routledge.com|access-date=2016-12-15}}

Adrian Monck ranked Bradshaw second in his list of "Britain's Top Ten Journo-Bloggers" (2007).{{Cite web | last = Monck | first = Adrian | author-link = Adrian Monck | title = Britain's Top Ten Journo-Bloggers | publisher = adrianmonck.com | date = 7 November 2007 | url = http://adrianmonck.com/2007/11/britains-top-ten-journo-bloggers/ | accessdate = 28 March 2010 }} He was placed thirty-sixth in the Birmingham Post's "Power 50" list of 2009{{Cite news | title = Power 50 Profiles – No.36 Paul Bradshaw | newspaper = Birmingham Post | date = 30 July 2009 | url = http://www.birminghampost.net/news/power-50/power50-profiles09/2009/07/29/no-36-paul-bradshaw-65233-24269279/ | accessdate = 28 March 2010 }} and listed again in the Media section of the 'Power 250' list in 2016.{{Cite news|url=http://www.birminghampost.co.uk/business/business-news/birmingham-post-power-250-media-11123220|title=Birmingham Post Power 250: Media|last=Brown|first=Graeme|date=2016-04-01|newspaper=birminghampost|access-date=2016-12-15}} He has been listed in Journalism.co.uk's list of the leading innovators in journalism and media{{ Cite web | last = Oliver | first = Laura | title = The leading innovators in journalism and media in 2010 | url = http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2010/07/22/are-you-on-the-j-list-the-leading-innovators-in-journalism-and-media-in-2010/ }} and Poynter's most influential people in social media.{{ Cite web | last = Angelotti | first = Ellyn Michele | title = Live Blog: 'Finding the Future of Journalism' | url = http://www2.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=191975 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110112131229/http://www2.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=191975 | archivedate = 12 January 2011 | df = dmy-all }}

In 2010 he was shortlisted for Multimedia Publisher of the Year{{ Cite web | last = Luft | first = Oliver | title = NUJ Regional Press Awards shortlist unveiled | url = http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=45608 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110616122646/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=45608 | archivedate = 16 June 2011 | df = dmy-all }} and in 2011 ranked 9th in PeerIndex's list of the most influential UK journalists on Twitter.{{Cite news | last = Kiss | first = Jemima | title = Can you rank journalists by authority on Twitter? PeerIndex thinks so | url = https://www.theguardian.com/technology/pda/2011/jan/06/twitter-peerindex-journalism | accessdate = 7 January 2010 | location=London | work=The Guardian}} In 2016 he was part of a team that won the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards.{{Cite web|url=https://africa.cnnjournalistaward.com/en/finalists/2016/|title=2016|last=International|first=CNN|date=2016-10-16|website=africa.cnnjournalistaward.com|language=en|access-date=2016-12-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116054425/https://africa.cnnjournalistaward.com/en/finalists/2016/|archive-date=16 January 2017|url-status=dead}}

Bradshaw is also a graduate of Birmingham City University (then the University of Central England), where he studied media from 1995 to 1998.{{Cite web | title = Paul Bradshaw | work = LinkedIn | url = http://uk.linkedin.com/in/onlinejournalist | accessdate = 28 March 2010 }}

One of Bradshaw's MA students was Lyra McKee.{{cite web |last1=Bradshaw |first1=Paul |title=Lyra McKee |url=https://medium.com/@paulbradshaw/lyra-mckee-26df24e0d9b5 |website=Medium |accessdate=22 April 2019 |date=20 April 2019}}