Heidi Legg, lead research fellow at the Future of Media Project at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard, here argues that the UK is turning into a hotspot for media innovation. She calls on the American media industry to sit up and take notice.

Silicon Valley in California spawned the tech industry. Cambridge Kendall Square in Massachusetts launched the biotech era. And, after a 25-year decline for the news industry, there are shoots of hope sprouting from across the pond.

Once home to the newspaper barons of Fleet Street at the dawn of the industrial revolution, the UK apparently wants its media crown back.