Guardian: Times website seeks Sky News link-up
The Times website wants to carry more video content from Sky News. Times Online editor-in-chief, Anne Spackman, told MediaGuardian.co.uk that negotiations to make this happen were at an early stage on...
View ArticleHow did the national newspaper online sites report the August ABCes?
This post has backfired a little: the original idea was to look at how the national broadsheets reported the ABCes because it’s always interesting when a publication or website has to report on itself...
View ArticleTimes are changing: an online jobs shuffle at Times Online
So, it’s all change at the Times and Times Online. Anne Spackman, as reported last week, is now the comment editor of the main paper, after a spell as editor-in-chief at Times Online since 2006. That...
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Developers get bylines too in the Times
Thanks to Tom Whitwell, assistant editor for Times Online, for bringing this to our attention: today’s print edition of the Times complete with joint byline for developer Julian Burgess. The graphic...
View ArticlePress Gazette: Wired UK names website team
The UK edition of Conde Nast technology magazine Wired has named the editorial team for its website – set to launch in April to coincide with the print title. Former online technology editor for Times...
View ArticleTimes Online inauguration live blog attracts 35,000
Among the inauguration day records for media sites, nice to hear of success for Times Online’s own interactive coverage – a liveblog using CoveritLive. Run for eight-and-a-half hours and hosted on the...
View ArticleMalcolm Coles: Times Online finds success with StumbleUpon
Some quick analysis over at Malcolm Coles’ blog, suggests that Times Online is the most popular UK national newspaper when it comes to article-sharing/bookmarking on StumbleUpon. Full post at this...
View ArticlepaidContent:UK: No plans for pay wall at Times Online
There are no plans to introduce a pay wall at Times Online – despite recent suggestions by newspaper rivals, paidContent:UK has learned. Full story at this link…Similar Posts: Daily Intel: New York...
View ArticleComment Central: New commenting system for Times Online
The Times has introduced a new commenting system for its website lifting the upper word limit for comments from 300 to 2,000 and introducing a registration system. “This will enable us to highlight and...
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Paying for podcasts? A Times Online poll
Interesting poll currently running (well, at 2:54pm on July 24 at least) on Times Online asking if and how much listeners would be willing to pay to listen to its podcast The Bugle. Of course this...
View ArticleNMA: Times pay wall from next spring?
NMA has more details on News International’s pay wall plans – Times Online is reportedly set to introduce the system in Q1 next year, while dates for The Sun and News of the World are undecided. The...
View ArticleTimes Online: Reporter ejected from BNP meeting
The Times reports in its leader how one of its reporters, Dominic Kennedy, was expelled from a BNP meeting yesterday. The newspaper also claims that the reporter was assaulted. Mr Kennedy was not...
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Times Online caught up in awkward byline scandal
Last Friday we were sniggering away over a Telegraph headline malfunction. Today it’s a very unfortunately bylined story from 18 March about the world-famous Vienna Boys’ Choir being caught up in a...
View ArticleFirst peek at traffic stats for Times’ new site
New figures released by intelligence service Hitwise show that traffic to the Times’ new site, thetimes.co.uk, has halved in the last week, following the closure of timesonline.co.uk. The drop also...
View ArticleFleetStreetBlues: Roger Boyes on reputation management after unfortunate byline
It certainly caused a snigger or two in the Journalism.co.uk office when, more than a year ago, we came across the unfortunate byline placement on this story in the Times, which happened to be about...
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