Times Radio launch-day verdict: A cautious thumbs-up for Rupert Murdoch’s alternative to Radio 4
Launching a new national talk-based radio station in the midst of a pandemic lockdown could not have been easy. But…
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News UK launches Times Radio with Boris Johnson’s ‘first sit-down broadcast interview since lockdown’
Times Radio launched with what it described as an exclusive Boris Johnson interview. The prime minister was interviewed by Aasmah…
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Covid-19 crisis drives more than a million new digital subs for leading news providers
Ten of the biggest newspaper groups in the US and UK have collectively gained more than 1m new digital subscriptions…
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News industry set for £50m-a-year boost from VAT cut on digital publications
The UK’s newspaper and magazine industry stands to be at least £50m-a-year better off after a Government move to cut…
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Times Radio to shun public phone-ins and ‘adversarial’ interview style
Times Radio will shun listener phone-ins and avoid the “old fashioned adversarial approach” to interviews seen elsewhere, it revealed today.…
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Harry Cole named new Sun political editor as Tom Newton Dunn leaves for Times Radio
Harry Cole will replace Sun political editor Tom Newton Dunn who is leaving the paper after 16 years to join…
By BBC’s Aasmah Mir and Channel 4 News’ Cathy Newman among latest Times Radio signings
Journalist and presenter Aasmah Mir has left the BBC after almost 20 years to join News UK’s Times Radio, which…
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Times, FT and WaPo discover ‘real appetite’ for data-driven visual journalism on coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic has created a “real appetite” for visual storytelling using data, as demonstrated by record-breaking stories at the…
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