Byline Times

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Byline Times
Byline times logo.jpg
EditorHardeep Matharu
CategoriesPolitics, current affairs, social affairs,
FrequencyMonthly
Founder Peter Jukes
Stephen Colegrave
Founded2016 (as byline.com)
March 2019 [1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
Based inLondon
Language English
Website bylinetimes.com OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
ISSN 2632-7910

Byline Times is a British newspaper and website founded in March 2019 by Peter Jukes and Stephen Colegrave, [2] who are also its executive editors. [3] It is a development of Byline, a crowdfunding and media outlet platform founded in April 2015 by Seung-yoon Lee and Daniel Tudor. [2] [4]

Contents

Operations

The newspaper is published monthly for subscribers, while BylineTimes.com functions as a free news site. Byline Times's sister organisations are the crowdfunding journalism platform Byline.com, investigative unit Byline Investigates, the Byline Times Podcast, Byline Books and the annual summer event Byline Festival. All are separate entities. [5] Byline Times is also published by Bywire News , an "independent blockchain news network", whose other partners include The Canary , Labour Buzz, Not the News, Business Wales, Our.London, and Media Reform Coalition (MRC) [6] which, according to Bywire, means "each article contains a record on the blockchain detailing when it was created, by whom, and any revisions which are made and when". [7] In 2020, Byline Media collaborated with George Llewelyn and Caolan Robertson to create Byline TV, a subscriber-funded video channel. [8]

Staff

The editor of Byline Times is Hardeep Matharu. [9] Other staff include its Special Investigations Reporter Nafeez Ahmed, former Spectator political columnist Peter Oborne, former BBC journalist Adrian Goldberg who hosts the Byline Times Podcast, [3] [5] former BBC Panorama reporter John Sweeney [10] and author Otto English. The paper has also had contributions from others, including the actor and comedian John Cleese. [11]

Purpose

Interviewed in 2019, Matharu described the purpose of Byline Times as to "really dig down and investigate [...] pressing social issues, many of them to do with justice, or a lack of, which for one reason or another are not being widely or extensively reported on elsewhere." Jukes described the newspaper as providing "what the [other] papers don't say" and said it would be similar in tone to the broadsheet news magazine FT Weekend . [12]

Significant stories

Stories broken by Byline Times have been picked up by other media outlets. These include allegations of cronyism in the Johnson government's allocation of contracts during the COVID-19 pandemic. [9] [13] In July 2023, Byline Times broke allegations of sexual impropriety by the journalist Dan Wootton. [14] Wootton denied the allegations and sought to crowdfund legal fees for a case against the paper. Byline Times subsequently said its journalists had been targeted with threats and intimidation, without suggesting Wootton was involved. [15] [16]

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  3. 1 2 "About". Byline Times. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  4. ↑ Ciobanu, Mădălina (9 July 2015). "Byline sees a new wave in crowdfunded journalism". Journalism.co.uk. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  5. 1 2 Magrath, Paul (11 April 2019). "Byline Times: a new approach to journalism?". The Transparency Project. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  6. ↑ "Daily News". Bywire News. 16 August 2023. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  7. ↑ "How it works". Bywire News. 13 February 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  8. ↑ Mortimer, Josiah (23 September 2020). "Interview: 'Fearless' rival launched to counter Murdoch-backed TV station". Left Foot Forward. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  9. 1 2 Clarke-Ezzidio, Harry (29 October 2021). "In the post-Corbyn world, what next for alternative left media?". New Statesman. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  10. ↑ "John Sweeney". Byline Times. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  11. ↑ Cleese, John (2 April 2019). "'Ramblin' Donald: Why 7,000 Republicans Could Never be Wrong". Byline Times. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  12. ↑ Tobitt, Charlotte (22 March 2019). "Byline team to rebrand and launch print title for subscribers in telling stories others 'have ignored'". Press Gazette. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  13. ↑ Davies, William; Dutta, Sahil Jai; Taylor, Nick; Tazzioli, Martina (19 April 2022). Unprecedented?: How COVID-19 Revealed the Politics of Our Economy. MIT Press. p. 27. ISBN   978-1-913380-11-3.
  14. ↑ Waterson, Jim (25 July 2023). "Sun stands by Huw Edwards story and is investigating Dan Wootton, MPs hear". The Guardian . Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  15. ↑ Tobitt, Charlotte (24 July 2023). "Dan Wootton appeals for cash to sue Byline Times as site launches own crowdfunder". Press Gazette . Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  16. ↑ Frost, Caroline (22 July 2023). "UK Presenter Seeks Crowdfunding Cash To Fight Allegations Of 'Bribery For Explicit Images'". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved 26 July 2023.
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