Paul Carr

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Paul Carr at a Friday Books launch party in October 2006.

Paul Carr (born 7th December 1979) is a London-based publisher, journalist and entrepreneur^{[citation needed]}. He is co-founder (and Director of Interactive Media) of The Friday Project, a publishing company specialising in web-to-print publishing, and is also on the board of directors of media holding company, Friday Project Media Plc^{[citation needed]}.

Carr was the founding Editor of the award-winning satirical "comment sheet" The Friday Thing and the London city guide London by London^{[citation needed]}. He was previously the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of The London News Review^{[citation needed]}. Carr's journalism can primarily be found in The Guardian newspaper, where he wrote a frequent media column^{[citation needed]}. He has also written nine books, published by Pearson, with a tenth due to be published by Pan Macmillan in 2007^{[citation needed]}.

In 2002, The Christian Scientist described Carr as a "latter day Jonathan Swift" following the publication of his satirical anti-paedophile manifesto "Think of the Children"^{[citation needed]}. He has also written for television, most recently for Alison Jackson's Doubletake series^{[citation needed]}.