The Times - Introduction: blog tasks

 The Times - Introduction: blog tasks


Read the About Us page of the Times website and answer the following questions:

1) What year was The Times founded and when did it start using the Times name?

1st january 1985.

2) What content did John Walter suggest the paper would offer in the first edition?

politics, foreign affairs, matters of trade, legal trials, advertisements and “amusements”.

3) Who owns The Times today and how is editorial integrity protected?

News Corp

4) What did The Times introduce in 2010 and why?

Both papers introduced digital subscriptions in 2010 to help ensure a sustainable future for their journalism.

5) What was The Times named in 2018 by the Reuters Institute for Journalism at Oxford University?

Britain's most trusted national newspaper

6) What does the section on Editorial Standards say about The Times and newspaper regulation?

 rules that newspapers and magazines regulated by IPSO have agreed to follow. The Code is written and administered by the Editors' Code Committee and enforced by IPSO.

7) What does the section on Ownership say about The Times and who is the current editor? 

Tony Gallagher (born 2 November 1963) is a British newspaper journalist, and is currently editor of The Times. He was editor of The Daily Telegraph, joint deputy editor of the Daily Mail, and editor of The Sun in 2015, before being appointed editor of The Times in 2022.

Finally, look at this News UK webpage with key information about The Times for potential advertisers and complete the following tasks:

8) Write down three key statistics from this page.

£55,885 reader have this mean family income
62% social grade AB
1.04m average daily readership 

9) Look at the various sections of the newspaper outlined on this page (e.g. Entertainment, Announcements, Travel). What do these sections suggest about The Times newspaper's audience?

that they have a high quality of life 



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