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Reuters Institute for the study of Journalism

Reuters Institute for the study of Journalism: Emily Bell's Speech - Reuters Memorial Lecture 2014, Silicon Valley and Journalism: Make up or break up?� (check against delivery)

Good evening.

I want to thank David Levy and the Reuters Institute for inviting me to speak here today. It is a great honor to be talking to such a distinguished audience in an environment which has nurtured free thinking and speech which has had such impact on the world.

There are not many of us working in the realm of research aimed at helping news organisations and journalists and from the vantage point of the Tow Center at Columbia Journalism School we look to the Reuters Institute as a model in this field.

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