Paul Lewis

Paul Lewis is West Coast Bureau chief for the Guardian, based in San Francisco. He has been awarded eleven major journalism prizes for his work, including the European Press Prize, in recognition of a landmark study with the London School of Economics into the causes and consequences of a major outbreak of riots in the UK. Lewis is the co-author of the award-winning book ‘Undercover: The True Story of Britain’s Secret Police’, which peeled back the curtains on a scandal of undercover operations that led the UK government to launch a rare public inquiry which is ongoing. Both of those projects were conducted from London, where Lewis was the Guardian’s special projects editor. Since then, Lewis worked as the Guardian’s Washington Correspondent, covering the White House under Barack Obama and rise of Donald Trump, before relocating to San Francisco to spearhead the newspaper’s coverage of Silicon Valley. Lewis has lectured across the world on the use of social media in journalism and for several years taught a masterclass in applying digital techniques to investigative reporting. His TED talk about crowdsourcing journalism has been viewed over 100,000 times. Paul joined the Guardian as a trainee is 2005 after studying at Cambridge University and Harvard University.

Paul Lewis won the 2013 European Press Prize Innovation Award with ‘Reading the Riots’

Torry Pedersen

Torry Pedersen is Head of Publishing in Schibsted Norway. He started to work as a journalist back in 1981. Most of his career he has been with VG – Norways most read news outlet. For 22 years he was part of their top management team. He held from 2011-2017 the position as their editor-in-chief and CEO. Pedersen held the same position for their online arm from 2000-2008. During his reign VG has won numerous awards both nationally and internationally. Pedersen has also for many years been a member of numerous boards in the Schibsted Group.

Torry Pedersen was selected for the 2013 European Press Prize shorlist as ‘Editor of VG’