The Times tames trolls with the power of naming
The results of The Times’s experiment in enforcing real names in comments look promising, and the EU starts looking warily at TikTok.
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The Week in Tweets
A landmark week in a number of ways, caught in a handful of Tweets…
The Times
Why the Streisand effect could hit The Times’s bottom line
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.
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Red Box's Matt Chorley on the worst thing you can do behind closed doors
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.
business models
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 model [https://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2016/03/times-digital-editions-relaunch.html] . The big question: did it work? The answer, based on
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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 [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
commenters
Commenting life behind the paywall
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’
apps
Jargon Times
“on-boarding experience”? Really? The Times need a sub to look over their app release notes…
design
Times New Roman: biography of a newspaper font
This is an interesting watch: It’s part of The Times Unquiet Film Series [http://www.thetimes.co.uk/unquiet/#times-new-roman].
business models
Reading The Times on Gin Lane
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2013/12/The%20Times%20Gin-3409.html] 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
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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 [http://paidcontent.org/2012/12/04/tail-wags-dog-times-subsidizes-75-of-nexus-7-for-subscribers/] . I see the concept – a digital sub AND the device to read it on. The problem? My experience of using
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Sustainably profitable digital publishing - #newsrw
Panel discussion on sustainable business models, chaired byKathryn 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 same problem. The big change is the