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Emily Bell

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Emily Bell

Businessman and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

What are Facebook and other social media doing about Donald Trump?

US presidential candidate is using TV coverage and the power of the social web to publicise his campaign.

The law has extended the disciplinary arm of employers — posts made on personal social media accounts may constitute a sufficient enough reason for dismissal

Twitter’s change of heart is about money, not responsibility

It needs to be a nicer place, for the sake of its share price if not its role in the public sphere.

Paywalls may work best at newspapers with unique content such as the New York Times

‘Robot’ news reporter tells a grim story

The ramifications of algorithms turning data into words rings warning bells for the news industry, writes Emily Bell.

Tabloid battle hots up in New York

Tabloid battle hots up in New York

Former <em>News of the World</em> editor, Colin Myler, has taken over at the <em>New York Daily News</em>.

Why integration can be a barrier in the digital world

Although some integrated news rooms and sales forces are effective, progress is often quicker where digital is kept apart.

Google’s news upsets media boffins

It was an employee at the WPP advertising business who so succinctly categorised Google, the search engine, as a "frenemy". Nowhere is this ambiguous status more obvious than in…

Oh, for the love of boys

When it became obvious that I was pregnant for the third time, one question predominated. Not the pertinent, ”What were you thinking?”, but, because we had two boys already, the…

The myth of Satan’s web

When businesses play the paedophile card, whether it is Microsoft or the News of the World, it always leaves a scintilla of suspicion lurking in the minds of those more cynical…