International Business Times is an expanding UK news website with a priest for an editor who is preaching an encouraging message for journalists.

The good news from George Pitcher is that it is possible to sustain a serious news operation with online advertising alone.

Former Daily Telegraph religion editor Pitcher has been editor-in-chief of IB Times for just over a year. In that time he says the London-based team has expanded from around 45 to 60 journalists. It has a further 20 journalists covering global news overnight based in Bangalore, India, and around 12 freelance stringers based around the world.