Paul Mason (journalist)

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Paul Mason (2015)

Paul Mason (born January 23, 1960 in Leigh , Lancashire , England ) is a British university lecturer , publicist , business journalist and television presenter .

Life

Paul Mason (2016)

Mason attended school in his hometown and in Bolton, and then went to the University of Sheffield to study music and politics . He continued his training as a music teacher at the Institute of Education at University College London . His postgraduate studies at the University of Sheffield dealt with the Second Vienna School until 1984 . He lived in Leicester from 1982 to 1988 , where he worked as a music teacher and lectured at Loughborough University .

Mason has lived in London since 1988 , where he worked as an independent journalist until 1995. From 1995 to 2001 he worked for Reed Business Information , where he was among other things deputy editor of Computer Weekly magazine . During the dot-com bubble , he edited the e-business review and wrote for the Daily Express and Mail on Sunday .

Mason joined the BBC Two television program's Newsnight program in 2001 as a business editor and was first seen live there on the day of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in Manhattan and Washington, DC .

In 2007 Mason's first book was published. In July of the same year he was responsible for a four-part series on the history of the cotton industry, which was broadcast on BBC Radio Four . In 2013, as part of the BBC's The Culture Show, he directed a documentary about the music style Northern Soul and the music club Wigan Casino , which he visited as a young man.

Mason joined the private broadcaster Channel 4 News in 2014 as responsible for culture and later also for business. In 2016 he decided to work as a freelancer in order to be able to work free from the constraints of impartiality .

In his optimistic future book Klare, Lichte Zukunft - A radical defense of humanism (2019) he pleads for a broad alliance of all humanist-minded people against the "alliance of elite and mob" that Donald Trump brings with him. Mason thinks that "Nietzsche's thinking prevails in many elites" and that the greatest contemporary danger is that the people of the West will lose faith in democracy, the desire for democratic participation. He fears that if the majority of contemporary people lost control of the AI machines, we would “never be able to get them back”. He admits himself as a “radical humanist and incorrigible technical utopian”.

Private

Mason is married. He is a supporter of the local rugby club LeighCenturions and the football club Manchester United .

Prizes and awards

Publications

  • Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global . Harvill Secker, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-436-20615-3 .
  • Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed . Verso, London 2009, ISBN 978-1-84467-396-4 .
  • Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions . Verso, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-84467-851-8 .
    • Revised and updated edition: Why is it Still Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions . Verso, London / New York City 2013, ISBN 978-1-84467-028-4 .
  • Rare Earth . No Exit, Harpenden 2012, ISBN 978-1-84243-846-6 .
  • PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future . Allen Lane, London 2015, ISBN 978-1-84614-738-8 .
    • German by Stephan Geltner: Post capitalism. Outlines of a coming economy . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-518-42539-8 .
  • Clear Bright Future. A Radical Defense of the Human Being . Allen Lane, London 2019, ISBN 978-0-24132-010-5 .
    • Clear, bright future - a radical defense of humanism , translated from the English by Stephan Gebauer. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2019, 415 pages, ISBN 978-3-518-42860-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Nietzsche rules Silicon Valley , book talk with the author in the FAZ on July 18, 2019, accessed on the same date
  2. Paul Mason: “We have to say goodbye to market-related thinking” , book talk in Die Zeit on June 17, 2019, accessed July 18, 2019
  3. Top Ten 2016 of Future Literature | Selected by the ProZukunft editorial team . In: The Robert Jungk Library for Future Issues (JBZ) . December 12, 2016 ( jungk-bibliothek.org [accessed January 10, 2018]).
  4. Erich Fromm Prize for journalist Paul Mason , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on February 10, 2020.
  5. Utopia. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . April 10, 2016, p. 48.