I research innovation and entrepreneurship in the news media across the world - and then help forward-thinking individuals and companies to make it happen.Formerly a Visiting Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, I'm a founding partner in the Innovation Research Group and director of the pioneering Journalism Leaders Programme at the University of Central Lancashire, home to the UK’s oldest journalism school. I also initiated the Media And Digital Enterprise (MADE) project, which is the only UK winner of the International Press Institute’s inaugural News Innovation Contest sponsored by Google. I like to think of myself a boundary spanner between academia and industry, which is why I co-founded the Digital Editors Network (UK) and probably also why, in 2007, I was the first academic invited to join the World Editors Forum of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA). Keen not only to share knowledge but to keep learning, I’ve initiated several on-going studies into the impacts of technology on the business and practices of the newspaper industry that underpin WAN-IFRA's World News Publishers Outlook report. From 2018, I will also be editing World Press Trends .