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Is The Times making its edition model work?

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Is The Times making its edition model work?

You may recall that a year ago, The Times did an unexpected thing: it backed away from 24 hour rolling news on its websites, and switched instead to an editions

The Times reinvents editions for the digital age

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The Times reinvents editions for the digital age

The big news is out. The Times, already an outlier amongst UK newspapers in having a hard paywall, is changing its model again. Not the paywall – this is not a

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Commenting life behind the paywall

Douglas Boulton, one of this academic year’s crop of Interactive Journalism students at City, has just finished a couple of weeks as Ben Whitelaw’s personal coffee tabledoing shifts on The Times‘s community desk, and he’s shared his experiences: I’m

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Jargon Times

“on-boarding experience”? Really? The Times need a sub to look over their app release notes…

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Times New Roman: biography of a newspaper font

This is an interesting watch: It’s part of The Times Unquiet Film Series.

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Reading The Times on Gin Lane

Since this press release arrived, I’ve been struggling to find the words to blog about it: For immediate release December 18, The Times newspaper has today launched a new premium London Dry Gin, called The Times London Dry Gin. Made in very small

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Buy The Times, get a tablet...

Great offers that I don’t understand #56: The Times giving away or selling you a cheap Nexus 7 with a digital subscription. I see the concept – a digital sub AND the device to read it on. The problem? My experience of using The

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Sustainably profitable digital publishing - #newsrw

Panel discussion on sustainable business models, chaired by Kathryn Corrick, digital media consultant. Lucia Adams, The Times – When they launched a paywall, people predicted a disaster. But it hasn’t turned out that way, and now all the newspapers are trying to solve the

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Sunday Newspapers on the iPad

It’s Sunday, and I’m on holiday – or as on holiday as an under-employed freelance consultant can be – and so my thoughts turn to those most vital components of a relaxing Sunday: coffee and the newspapers. I’m largely a tablet newspaper chap

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Of HuffPos, blogs and journalists, of bloggers and kings

Tracey Ullman, of all people, perfectly catches the media dynamic of our age in (inevitably) HuffPo UK: When King George V died, his time of death was withheld so that the The Times could break the news rather than the late monarch suffering the

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Of Paywalls and Cupcakes

It’s the tail end of the day, and I’m just emerging from a long meeting with my boss. It was a good meeting, but I’m tired and ready for a weekend. And then reception calls. A very puzzled security guy tells

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iPad

Needs MOAR byline

The problem with creating iPad apps in a print-like format is that, well, sometimes print-like errors slip through…

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Cross-platform subs: sign of The Times

Spotted on my morning commute: heavy promotion for subscriptions to *The Times* as a cross-platform offer.

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The Times opens up (a little)

Talking of RSS, I note than some more changes have hit everyone’s favourite paywalled enterprise, The Times online. First up, the blogs now have a free-to-air front page, and the main page is also available to view. Here’s Ruth Gledhill’s Articles