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Paul Bradshaw’s Biography

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Paul Bradshaw is a data journalist, writer and academic. He leads the MA in Data Journalism at Birmingham City University where he has taught for over a decade, and from 2010-2015 was also a visiting professor in online journalism at City University London.

With a background in magazine and website management, he is best known as the publisher of the Online Journalism Blog and the founder of the award-winning investigative journalism crowdsourcing site Help Me Investigate, which ran from 2009-…

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Follow the Money

Follow the Money

It is January 2014. Among a group of about 30 young boys, some as young as 12, are Ebuka Ogbuehi and Joel Ize…

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INVESTIGATION: How Nigerian young footballers are trafficked, abused, abroad - Premium Times Nige...

INVESTIGATION: How Nigerian young footballers are trafficked, abused, abroad - Premium Times Nige...

It was January 2014. Among a group of about 30 young boys, some as young as 12, are Ebuka Ogbuehi and Joel Iz…

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How to be a data journalist

How to be a data journalist

Data journalism trainer and writer Paul Bradshaw explains how to get started in data journalism, from getting…

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2012 Olympics investigation: the story behind the olympic sponsors

2012 Olympics investigation: the story behind the olympic sponsors

An investigation by Help Me Investigate into Olympic torchbearers has unearthed some surprising choices by sp…

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Council spending cuts, in seven charts

Council spending cuts, in seven charts

It's widely known that since 2010, English councils have had less money to spend. But that's just half the st…

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Fifth of MPs still employ family member

Fifth of MPs still employ family member

One in five MPs continue to employ a member of their family using taxpayers' money despite the practice being…

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Articles

NHS: Woman waited nine months for hospital discharge Original

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By Paul Lynch Verified, Paul Bradshaw
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A woman who waited nine months in hospital for a suitable care home placement became a "shadow of her former self", her mother has said. Jocelyn Ullmer, 60, from West Sussex, saw her health deteriorate after being admitted to hospital in June last year. Her mother, Sylvia Hubbard, 86, said: "We tried to get her out of hospital, but no one wanted her." Across England, around 60% of patients classed as fit to leave remain in hospital at the end of an average day.
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Here’s why - and how - discipline is one of the 7 habits of successful journalists

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By Paul Bradshaw
| Medium
In a previous post I wrote about the central role of creativity in journalism training — in this penultimate post in a series on the seven habits of successful journalists, I explore how discipline is equally important in directing that creativity towards a professional end — and how it can actually help create the conditions for creativity. You can also read the posts on curiosity, scepticism, persistence and empathy.
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Here’s how we teach creativity in journalism (and why it’s the 5th habit of successful journalists)

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By Paul Bradshaw
| Medium
In the fifth in a series of posts on the seven habits of successful journalists, I explore how creativity can be developed in trainee journalists. You can read the posts on curiosity, scepticism, persistence and empathy here. Describing journalism as a creative profession can cause discomfort for some reporters: we portray journalism as a neutral activity — “Just the facts” — different to fiction or arts that appear to ‘create something from nothing’.
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Technology reporter

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Awards

CNN MultiChoice Award

2016 - Sport

This story investigates the trafficking of young football aspirants, out of Nigeria by rogue football agents who defraud the families of these boys of thousands of dollars. It is estimated that some 15,000 young boys - some as young as 12 - are trafficked out of West Africa to Europe each year. The narrative follows the 12 month ordeal of Ebuka and Joel who were trafficked from Nigeria to Cameroon and abandoned by an agent who promised them, and several others, trials with major clubs. Video about the award: https://vimeo.com/187993647

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