Emily Bell

{{Short description|British academic and journalist}}

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Emily Jane Bell (born 14 September 1965){{cite web|url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/b/26522/Emily%20Jane+BELL.aspx|title=Ms Emily Bell Authorised Biography|website=Debrett's|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213043458/https://debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/b/26522/Emily%20Jane%2bBELL.aspx|archive-date=13 December 2013|url-status=dead}} is a British academic and journalist. She is Professor of Professional Practice at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (Columbia School of Journalism)[http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/profile/304 "Emily Bell"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211015707/http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/profile/304 |date=2013-12-11 }}, Columbia School of Journalism and the Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, part of the CSJ,[http://towcenter.org/about/who-we-are/ "Who We Are: Emily Bell, Director"], Tow Center for Digital Journalism in New York City. Before taking up her academic post at the Tow Center in 2010, Bell had worked for The Guardian and Observer newspapers since 1990.Jason Deans [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/apr/21/emily-bell-to-leave-guardian "Emily Bell to leave Guardian News & Media for university post"], theguardian.com, 21 April 2010

Born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, Bell read jurisprudence at Christ Church, Oxford, and graduated in 1987. She began her career on Big Farm Weekly that year, and then joined Campaign, the magazine for the advertising business, in 1988.Stephen Armstrong [https://www.prweek.com/article/92955/media-profile-emily-bell-business-editor-observer---true-business-strategist "Media Profile: Emily Bell, business editor, the Observer - A true business strategist"], PR Week, 4 December 1998 In 1990, Bell joined The Observer as a business reporter[https://archive.today/20131209200359/http://blogs.theguardian.com/arts/author/emily_bell/profile.html "Guardian Unlimited: Arts Blog: Emily Bell"], theguardian.com becoming Media Business Editor in 1995, deputy business editor,NMA Staff [http://econsultancy.com/uk/nma-archive/56279-emily-bell-guardian-unlimited "Emily Bell, Guardian Unlimited"], econsultancy.com, 6 December 2007 and then Business Editor during 1998. In June 2000, Bell became executive editor of the Media Guardian website,[https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/45112/ "Guardian appoints Observer business editor to head up online media launch"], campaignlive.co.uk, 14 June 2000 and editor-in-chief of Guardian Unlimited in February 2001.Adam Hill [https://www.prweek.com/article/106158/media-editor-guardian-unlimited-resigns "Media: Editor of Guardian Unlimited resigns"], PR Week, 1 December 2001

In September 2006, Bell was appointed to the board of Guardian Newspapers Ltd and assumed the role of director of digital content for Guardian News and Media.[https://www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-office/2006/sep/15/press-releases "Emily Bell to Join Board of Guardian Newspapers"], theguardian.com, (Guardian News and Media Press Office), 15 September 2006 Bell became a non-executive director of the Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian Media Group, in January 2013.Josh Halliday [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jan/23/emily-bell-alex-graham-scott-trust "Emily Bell and Alex Graham appointed Scott Trust non-executive directors"], theguardian.com, 23 January 2013

Bell is an editor of Journalism After Snowden: The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State,{{Cite book|url=https://cup.columbia.edu/book/journalism-after-snowden/9780231176132|title=Journalism After Snowden: The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State|date=March 2017|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780231540674|editor-last=Bell|editor-first=Emily|editor-last2=Khorana|editor-first2=Taylor Owen With Smitha|editor-last3=Bollinger|editor-first3=Jennifer R. Henrichsen Foreword by Lee C.}} published by Columbia University Press in March, 2017. She is also one of the 25 members of the Information and Democracy Commission launched by Reporters Without Borders.