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.
Emily Bell. Photo: Supplied
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.