François Nel is the founding director of the Journalism Leaders Programme at the University of Central Lancashire, UK, and co-founder of the Digital Editors Network. Winner of the inaugural International Press Institute’s News Innovation Contest funded by Google , François will in 2012 be launching the Media And Digital Enterprise (MADE) project, which aims to help news start-ups in the UK and Turkey stay up. The first academic invited to join the World Editors Forum, François initiated the World Newspaper Future & Change Study (now the World Newsmedia Innovation Study) and since 2008 has also conducted the ‘Where else is the money?’ study into the evolving digital revenue models of newspapers in the UK’s 66 cities.