[1] He was previously the newspaper's Washington Correspondent, San Francisco Bureau Chief and Associate Editor and has won 12 awards, mostly for investigative reporting.

[5] Lewis was named "Reporter of the Year" in 2010 at the British Press Awards[6] for his work exposing details of the death of Ian Tomlinson at the 2009 G20 summit protests.

In achieving this Paul used every method now available to a modern journalist, online and in print, to keep pushing and nudging at the story until he established what had really happened.

[7]At TEDxThessaloniki in April 2011 he gave a talk on how citizen journalism and social media had helped him report on the Ian Tomlinson case and the unlawful killing of Jimmy Mubenga.

[11] His eight-part series Anywhere but Washington explored what America's most overlooked peoples and places revealed about a nation divided in 2016.