Paul Lashmar

Paul Lashmar has been on the journalism staff at Brunel since 2009 and teaches a number of modules. He is currently undertaking a PhD on the links between the intelligence services and the media. Part of the research team in journalism and teaches on Brunel University's MA and BA journalism courses, Paul is writing a text book on multimedia journalism with Steve Hill of Solent University for publication by Sage in 2013.

Paul is a highly regarded investigative journalist and has worked in television, radio and print. He has been on the staff of The Observer, Granada Television’s World in Action current affairs series and The Independent. He has also produced a number of TV programmes for BBC’s Timewatch and Channel 4’s Dispatches series and is the author of three books and a chapter in ‘Investigative Journalism: Context & Theory’ (2008).

He covered the ‘War on Terror’ for the Independent on Sunday from 2001-2008.

He was awarded ‘Reporter of The Year’ in the 1986 UK Press Awards. Paul has written about terrorism, intelligence, organised crime, offshore crime, business fraud and the Cold War and has broken many major domestic and international stories. He is an adviser to the Centre for Investigative Journalism. His full CV can be found at www.paullashmar.com

Research Overview

Current research interests:  Excellence in journalism practice;   Excellence in journalism pedagogy;   The relationship between NGOs and the media;   Journalism and war on terror;   Journalism and organised crime;   Diversity in the Media;   Impact of Wikileaks;   EU and UK media;   Expanding the jazz audience

Teaching Activity

Videos:

Paul Lashmar lecture on Investigative Journalism: http://vimeo.com/3295596

Frontline Club Panel on ‘Predicting the Crash’, Paul Lashmar, Gillian Tett, Paul Mason, Ann Pettifor.  

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/843590

Frontline Club Panel on ‘Narco Wars: Can the War be Won’. Paul Lashmar chairs the panel.

http://www.viddler.com/explore/frontlineclub/videos/314/

Paul is working with Frank Griffith, the jazz musician and member of Brunel’s music subject area on a research project to examine ways to increase the jazz audience.

Follow Paul on twitter, facebook and delicious – user name: plashmar

Papers

Blonde on Blonde: an alternative narrative of the War on Terror as provided by leaked official documents at the MeCCSA annual conference 2011 in Salford 12-14 January 2010. A version of this will be published in INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM: DEAD OR ALIVE? Edited by John Mair and Richard Keeble for publication September 2011

‘The journalist, folk devil’ to 'The Moral Panics in a Contemporary World' conference at Brunel University 10-12 December 2010. For further details click logo above.

 ‘The Khan Question: Trust between the intelligence services and the news media’ at the Global Media and War on Terror Conference at the University of Westminster on 14^th September 2011.

Podcasts

Series Editor - “Cutting edge analysis of the critical issues facing journalism today”- augmented podcasts series for Henry Stewart Talks that was published in June 2010.

Paul gave the paper: Subprime – the death of financial reporting or a failure of investigative journalism?’ at The End of Journalism? conference University of Bedfordshire, 17-18 October 2008.

Selected academic publications:

Lashmar, P (2008) Investigative Journalism and reporting the war on terror. In Hugo de Burgh (ed) Investigative Journalism Routledge

Lashmar P (2008) ‘West Europe and North America Global corruption report’ Transparency International 2001 London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press ; Berlin : Transparency International, pgs 138-151

Lashmar, P. (1993) Outsiders - in from the cold. British Journalism Review 4.1: 32-36.

Lashmar, P. (1992) A fraudster's charter. British Journalism Review 3.4: 40-43.

Lashmar P. (1984) ‘Information as Power’. In Aubrey, Crispin & Chilton, Paul (eds)
Nineteen Eighty Four in 1984: Autonomy, Control & Communication Comedias Publishing Group paperback.

Publications

Journal Papers

(2013) Lashmar, P., Urinal or conduit? Institutional information flow between the UK intelligence services and news media., Journalism: theory, practice and criticism online

(Accepted) Lashmar, P., How to Humilate and Shame: A Reporter’s Guide to the Mugshot, Social Semiotics

Conference Papers

(2009) Lashmar, P., Virtual worlds in journalism education: using video and audio in distance and blended learning, Association for Journalism Education (AJE) Annual Conference

Book Chapters

(2013) Lashmar, P., ‘Journalist, Folk Devil?’. In: Petley, J., Hughes, J. and Rohloff, A. eds. Moral Panics in the Modern World. Bloomsbury

(2008) Lashmar, P., From shadow boxing to Ghost Plane: English journalism and the war on terror. In: de Burgh, H. ed. Investigative Journalism. Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge 191- 214