Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson er assisterende sjefredaktør i Guardian News and Media og leder avisens nyhets-, økonomi- og sportsredaksjon.

Johnson er utdannet I journalistikk ved Cardiff University og arbeidet tidligere for regionaviser før han begynte som journalist i The Guardian. Han har to ganger vunnet the British Press Awards for undersøkende journalistikk og mottatt Front Page of The Year Award.

I 2012 ledet han avisens prisvinnende dekning av London-OL.

Det siste året har Johnson vært leder for redaksjonen som har arbeidet med Snowden-filene. I juli 2013 ble han tvunget til å knuse sin egen PC under oppsyn av britisk sikkerhetspoliti i avishusets kjeller.

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Paul Johnson is Deputy Editor of Guardian News and Media, and head of news, business and sport. Educated at Cardiff University, and after a postgraduate qualification in journalism, he worked in regional newspapers before joining the Guardian as a reporter. As Irish correspondent he won awards for his reporting when the violence was at its height, before becoming news editor.
He was a member of the teams which twice won the British Press Awards investigation of the year and has also received the Front Page of the Year award at the British Press awards. 
As Deputy Editor, he played a leading role in the Guardian's transformation into the Berliner format in 2005, subsequently winning the World's Best Designed Newspaper in 2006 and 2008. 

He was responsible for the paper and website coverage on the London 2012 Olympics - the biggest operation of its kind - which won the Editorial Team award from the association of Online Publishers. 

He led the London-based team of specialist reporters who produced a series of revelations based on the Snowden files and, in July last year, was one of the three executives who took part in one of the most bizarre acts in British journalistic history - the destruction of those Snowden files using drills and grinders in the Guardian basement under the eye of secret service officers.