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The Times tames trolls with the power of naming Members Public

The results of The Times’s experiment in enforcing real names in comments look promising, and the EU starts looking warily at TikTok.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
community management

The Week in Tweets Members Public

A landmark week in a number of ways, caught in a handful of Tweets…

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
X (Twitter)

Why the Streisand effect could hit The Times’s bottom line Members Public

The Times pulling a story about the prime minister shows a strange mix of deference to authority, and a disregard for its paying members. And that could be bad for subs numbers.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
The Times

Red Box's Matt Chorley on the worst thing you can do behind closed doors Members Public

Matt Chorley on the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality [http://nuk-tnl-deck-email.s3.amazonaws.com/2/4d771504ddcd28037b4199740df767e6.html] in the UK: > Quite why anyone feels they need to pass judgment on what other people get up to in the privacy of their own homes is anyone’s guess.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
newsletters

Is The Times making its edition model work? Members Public

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 model [https://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2016/03/times-digital-editions-relaunch.html] . The big question: did it work? The answer, based on

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
business models

The Times reinvents editions for the digital age Members Public

The big news is out. The Times, already an outlier amongst UK newspapers in having a hard paywall, is changing its model again [http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/a-letter-from-the-editors-fdrq0p2p0]. Not the paywall – this is not a retreat from paid as its stablemate The Sun has done. No, this

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
analytics

Commenting life behind the paywall Members Public

Douglas Boulton [http://dougbolton.co.uk], 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 [http://www.interhacktives.com/2014/12/31/how-to-comment-online-without-being-a-jerk/] , and he’

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
commenters

Jargon Times Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
apps