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Emily Bell
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.
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.
‘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
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…