in 2016, "ibt" hired john crowley, the "wall street journal"'s digital editor, as its uk editor-in-chief. according to "the guardian", "crowley said his focus would be on helping the site break exclusives, in-depth storytelling and new forms of digital journalism". in 2017, "international business times" uk joined a partnership with "bloomberg", "channel 4" and the bbc to work together to combat the spread of fake news. consequently. in june 2017, jason murdock — who covers cyber security for the "international business times uk" — won digital writer of the year at the drum online media awards.