Paul Johnson
Deputy editor of the Guardian, News and Media, UK and head of news, business and sport.
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. He 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.
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.
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.
