Welcome to thetimes.co.uk
Tuesday, 15 June 2010, 17:08
"Our former website – www.timesonline.co.uk – has continued running in tandem with the new sites over the past few weeks, but from today we will switch to our new websites. This means that only thetimes.co.uk and thesundaytimes.co.uk will be updated with new articles, videos and galleries…"
The Times: Election’10
Friday, 2 April 2010, 12:25
Great interactive map for the General Election from the Times.
BBC News: Times and Sunday Times websites to charge from June
Friday, 26 March 2010, 08:18
"The Times and Sunday Times newspapers will start charging to access their websites in June … Users will pay £1 for a day's access and £2 for a week's subscription. … Both titles will launch new websites in early May, separating their digital presence for the first time and replacing the existing, combined site, Times Online. "
Media Guardian: News Corp will charge for newspaper websites, says Rupert Murdoch
Thursday, 7 May 2009, 22:11
"Asked whether he envisaged fees at his British papers such as the Times, the Sunday Times, the Sun and the News of the World, he replied: 'We're absolutely looking at that.' Taking questions on a conference call with reporters and analysts, he said that moves could begin 'within the next 12 months‚' adding: 'The current days of the internet will soon be over.'"
Journalism.co.uk: Empowering journalists and watching trends: Telegraph and Times talk search
Saturday, 28 March 2009, 14:49
"Following a lengthy process of tagging and tidying the site's archived content, for example changing page titles to more web-friendly descriptions, the Times is using trend analysis to boost its search strategy, Drew Broomhall, head of search, told the [Association of Online Publishers (AOP) forum]."
NMA: The Mail, Mirror and Future to keep online content free
Saturday, 28 March 2009, 14:12
"Mail Online, Trinity Mirror and Future Publishing have said they will remain subscription-free, despite news that The Independent and Times Online may charge for content."
NMA: Publishers forced to revisit pay barriers
Wednesday, 25 March 2009, 15:14
"Bauer … told new media age it was investigating a charging structure. A spokeswoman for Bauer said, "It's a business model we keep a close eye on and continue to investigate its potential, but for the time being our consumer-facing digital brands remain free.'"
Press Gazette: European court rejects time limit for online libel claim
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 16:55
Bad news for newspaper web archives: "The Times has failed in its bid to challenge an obscure 160-year-old legal precedent that allows people to sue newspapers for online libel without any time limit. … The court said it had ruled on the facts of this case alone and would not 'consider in detail the broader chilling effect allegedly created by the application of the internet publication rule'."
Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog: How much is too much? Defining the grey areas in attribution and linking
Sunday, 15 February 2009, 11:12
"Just how much of other people’s work on external sites can/should you use and how should you attribute in articles?" … [Tom Whitwell, assistant editor of TimesOnline] … said the subbing system and workflow in place – used for online as well as print work – meant links often got omitted. But ‘the general policy would be to link out to things’, he said."
Times Labs Blog
Monday, 9 February 2009, 18:49
"This is the Times ‘Labs’ blog – a space where we’ll be writing about innovations in web journalism, and sharing some of our own experiments. Some will be examples of things that we’ve rolled out across Times Online. Others will be in their infancy, but at a stage where we think it’s worth letting people know about them."
Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog: BNP members list leak gathers pace online – to link or not to link?
Wednesday, 19 November 2008, 14:18
"The UK’s national newspaper websites aren’t linking [to the leaked BNP membership list] either, though Mail Online posts both a screengrab of the list and pictures of alleged members and individual articles are being posted about ‘members’, their identies and any action taken by employers."
Observer: Wapping displays a lack of joined-up thinking over the internet
Sunday, 26 October 2008, 11:46
Peter Preston: "The two [online] front-runners [Guardian and Telegraph] have ploughed huge money into development and integration, bringing newsrooms and journalist teams together to mount a powerful, constantly updated service. But where's the Times in all this?"
SocialMediaCamp London: How to write awesome Headlines (So People read your Stuff) by Tom Whitwell [Times Online]
Sunday, 5 October 2008, 16:44
Some notes on Tom Whitwell's presentation on SEO at Times Online
Wednesday, 7 May 2008, 13:16
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The irony, of course, is that a "Ronseal headline" isn’t one.
