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The Arts Desk (theartsdesk.com) is a British arts journalism website containing reviews, interviews, news, and other content related to music, theatre, television, films, and other art forms written by journalists from a variety of traditional and web-based publications. [1] [2]

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History

It launched in September 2009 as a shareholder collective. [3] [4] In its launching year, it drew around 2000 daily visitors. [4] From 2010 to 2013, its honorary chairman was John Tusa. [5] [6] Its contributing editors are made up by professional critics and veteran journalists [7] who have worked for publications such as The Times , The Guardian , The Telegraph . They are freelance reviewers of art, music, dance and theatre, who post reviews online. [6] In 2019, it signed a deal with JPI Media that would allow I news to feature arts reviews and other articles written by the website's editors. [8]

Contributors to the website include Aleks Sierz and Adam Sweeting.

Reception

Upon its launch, The Telegraph deemed it as one of the best culture websites on the internet. [3] In 2012, it won an Online Media Award as the best specialist journalism site, jointly with the website for The Economist . [9] Prospect magazine described it as "Britain’s first professional arts critics website". [10]

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References

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  2. "About". The Arts Desk. Archived from the original on 19 September 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  3. 1 2 "Best websites: Culture". The Telegraph . 2009-11-12. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  4. 1 2 Burrell, Ian (2010-04-21). "Journalism's next generation: A new wave of writers are going online". The Independent . Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  5. "Extracts: John Tusa - Pain in the Arts". theartsdesk.com. 2014-06-16. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  6. 1 2 Waller, Martin (2010-10-20). "No cure for the credulous". The Times . ISSN   0140-0460. Archived from the original on 12 November 2022. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  7. Brown, Ismene (2013-08-02). "Only the artists can save the arts critics". The Guardian . ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  8. "JPIMedia signs deal with TheArtsDesk". InPublishing. 2019-04-10. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  9. "Online Media Awards 2014". Onlie Media Awards. Carnyx Group. 2014. Archived from the original on 26 February 2014.
  10. "But What Does It Mean? & Can Art Still Shock? In association with The Arts Desk". Prospect . 10 January 2012. Retrieved 2024-01-22.