Early career Lewis joined
The Guardian as a trainee in 2005, and was
Stern Fellow at
The Washington Post in 2007. for his work exposing details of the death of Ian Tomlinson at the 2009 G20 summit protests. This work was also recognised with the
Bevins Prize (2009) for outstanding investigative journalism. The Bevins Trust said of his investigation:
Career since 2011 At TEDxThessaloniki in April 2011 he gave a talk on how
citizen journalism and social media had helped him report on the Ian Tomlinson case and the
unlawful killing of Jimmy Mubenga. In 2013, he received the Innovation Award by the
European Press Prize for his project
Reading the Riots. In 2014, he was the joint winner of the Reporter of the Year award at the
British Press Awards, with his colleague,
Rob Evans. His eight-part series
Anywhere but Washington explored what America's most overlooked peoples and places revealed about a nation divided in 2016. He appeared in the movie
The Brink (2019), interviewing former White House chief strategist
Steve Bannon. His film, ''How Steve Bannon's Far-Right Movement Stalled in Europe'', won the 2019 DIG Award for investigative documentaries, which was praised by the jury for "its innovative point-of-view investigation, for its puncturing of inflated media myths, and for its original, research-driven exposure of a possible electoral crime in progress". In 2021, his team reported on the
Pandora Papers, which Lewis said raised issues of "genuine public interest". In 2022, Lewis' team was a joint winner of the
George Polk Award for their contribution to The Pegasus Project. ==References==