Emily Bell is the former online boss of the Guardian newspaper in London, where she oversaw a massive growth in digital content and audience. Since 2010 she has been Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, the Columbia University Journalism School.
She was recently in Cambridge, as Humanitas Visiting Professor in Media, delivering a lecture entitled The End of the News as We Know It: How Facebook Swallowed Journalism.
She’s back in the States now, in Austin, Texas, and joins Toby Manhire for a chat.