Paul Bagnell joined BNN in 2001, and reports on major corporate news stories for the channel. His areas of specialty include banking and financial services, corporate earnings and legal affairs. He has been BNN's reporter at landmark court rulings such as the Livent fraud trial, the Nortel Networks fraud trial and the BCE bondholders case at the Supreme Court of Canada. Before joining BNN, Bagnell was a reporter at the Financial Post for seven years, covering numerous beats. Prior to that, he was a correspondent in Ottawa and Washington for Thomson Newspapers. Bagnell's reports can be seen throughout the trading day on BNN.