paul lewis (born 1981) is a british journalist at "the guardian" best known for his award-winning investigation of the death of ian tomlinson at the 2009 g-20 summit protests in london. lewis joined the "guardian" as a trainee in 2005, and was stern fellow at the "washington post" in 2007. in august 2010 lewis became head of the "guardian"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "multimedia special projects team" which aims to find "new angles on breaking news stories, including using multimedia and crowdsourcing".