Paul Mason

Economics Editor of BBC’s Newsnight

Economics Editor of BBC’s Newsnight. He joined the programme in 2001 as business and industry correspondent, and took over as Economics Editor in 2008 with a brief to cover an agenda that he sums up as: "profit, people and planet". He spent a total of nine years covering business in specialist magazines and newspapers before making the move into TV. Before becoming a journalist Paul was a professional musician and lectured at Loughborough University of Technology.

His latest book, Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed (2009), tells the story of the financial collapse from September to October 2008 and argues that the era of neo-liberalism is over.