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A woman reads the newspapers frontpages at a Chiado newsagent, as Portuguese lockdown continues.Portugal, one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic, authorised the renewal of the state of emergency until March 1st, to try to contain the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Gustavo Valiente Herrero / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.
Podcast: Emily Bell on journalism in the platform era
March 5, 2021
Emily Bell, Quinta Jurecic, and Evelyn Douek
A woman reads the newspapers frontpages at a Chiado newsagent, as Portuguese lockdown continues. Portugal, one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic, authorised the renewal of the state of emergency until March 1st, to try to contain the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Gustavo Valiente Herrero / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.
A woman reads newspaper front pages at a stand in Lisbon, Portugal. (Gustavo Valiente Herrero / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)

Emily Bell is one of the world’s sharpest analysts of online news, a former director of digital content for The Guardian, and the founding director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School. On this episode of Lawfare‘s Arbiters of Truth, a miniseries on disinformation and misinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic sit down with Bell to discuss the role of legacy media in the spread of disinformation and what a range of institutions need to in order to combat it.