Paul Lashmar

Head of the Department of Journalism (2019 - 2021). I joined City in September 2017 as full time staff and I'm now two days a week. I'm also an investigative journalist and research academic.

Journalism
As a well-regarded investigative journalist I've worked in television, radio, online and print. I've been on the staff of The Observer, Granada Television’s World in Action current affairs series and Independent Newspapers. Over the years I've also produced a number of TV programmes for BBC’s Timewatch, Channel 4’s Dispatches series and briefly reported for Newsnight. I covered the so-called ‘War on Terror’ for the Independent on Sunday from 2001-2007.

I've authored or co-authored five books. Drax of Drax Hall, Landed Gentry, Sugar and Slaves is to be published by Pluto Press. Spies, Spin and the Fourth Estate was published by EUP in September 2020. Investigative Journalism by Hugo de Burgh and Paul Lashmar (eds) published by Routledge on 29 March 2021.The text book on multimedia journalism "Online Journalism" was co-authored with Steve Hill (Sage 2013).

I was awarded ‘Reporter of The Year’ (with David Leigh) at the British Press Awards. During my career I've has written about terrorism, intelligence, organised crime, offshore crime, business fraud and the Cold War and I've broken many major domestic and international stories.

I have been an adviser to The Centre for Investigative Journalism (TCIJ) and was a founder of the Bureau for Investigative Journalism (BIJ).

From July 2011 - 2018 I was the Hon. Editor of the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society(DNHAS), an annual semi-scholarly publication that has been published since 1874. My seventh, Volume 139 was published in January 2019. The Editor is part of the Dorset Archaeological Committee with responsibility for publishing research including that on the County's archaeology. Dorset has the greatest wealth of prehistoric archaeology in UK aside from The Orkneys.

Interviewee: Heists - Baker Street Robbery Sky History Channel 21st February 2023

Consultant and interviewee. Channel 5 documentary Britain's Biggest Bank Robbery. One hour. Broadcast 23 November 2015. Repeat March 2016.

Consultant to Film Producer Chris Morris for his feature Film Four Lions released in summer 2010.

Qualifications
PHD, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, United Kingdom, 2012 – 2015
PDAP (PGSHE Equivalent), Brunel University London, Uxbridge, United Kingdom, Jul 2011
Employment
Deputy Head of Department of Journalism, City, University of London, May 2018 – July 2019
Head of Journalism, University of Sussex, Oct 2015 – Sep 2017
Head of Journalism, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, Jul 2014 – Sep 2015
Lecturer, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, Sep 2009 – Jun 2014
Investigative Journalist, The Independent, Jun 1998 – May 2001. Other University appts from 2001.