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?
it began in 1785 and started adopting its modern name on the 1 January 1788

2) What content did John Walter suggest the paper would offer in the first edition?
The Register
3) Who owns The Times today and how is editorial integrity protected?
Rupert Murdoch
4) What did The Times introduce in 2010 and why? 
digital subscription so they can have a sustainable future for a 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?
they take negative into action by creating IPSO which allows them to discard negative comments or complaints and deleting them

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

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.
Average daily readership-1.04M
Time readers mean family income-£55,885
Social grade-62%
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?
people knew of The Times so they had to be famous in order for them to be known in the 2000s 
10) Click on three of the sections - your choice. Write down one key detail for each section you choose e.g. Travel - more Times readers took a holiday abroad last year than any other newspaper

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