Paul Mason
British journalist and author
Paul Mason is a British journalist and author who worked as economics editor at BBC Newsnight and Channel 4 News. He wrote the bestseller PostCapitalism.
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British Born 1960 in Leigh, United Kingdom
About Paul Mason
Paul Mason was born in 1960 in Leigh, Lancashire. He began in business journalism at Reed Elsevier, then became economics editor of BBC Newsnight and later of Channel 4 News. On television he reported on the 2008 global financial crisis and the fiscal crisis in Greece. He left Channel 4 in 2016 and has since mixed writing with political research and activism. He writes a weekly column for The New European. In 2020 he won the Erich Fromm Prize, which recognized his work against fascism and for humanism. Among his books is the bestseller PostCapitalism. He has also written the novel Rare Earth and the history Reds: A Global History of Communism.