One of the perhaps unanticipated consequences of the introduction of data in newsrooms is the insight it throws up in terms of what is failing to find an audience - and the opportunity cost this may r...
Lyndsey Jones
Lyndsey Jones is an executive editor at The Financial Times (FT) in London. She has played a leading role in the digital transformation of the FT, streamlining editorial operations and reshaping the newsroom to focus on digital-first publishing, while taking a more disciplined and simplified approach to the print editions. She has not only led successful mergers of teams, delivering changes to working practices to maintain the gold standard of FT journalism, but also as the architect of the global broadcast schedule, devised and implemented a targeted approach to online publication to help drive traffic and engagement. She has also advised other news organisations on the challenges of digital transformation.
Real digital transformation involves more than shiny new things and being agile. These are important for innovation, of course, but can also give a seductive and false sense of forward motion, of beat...
