The UK edition of Conde Nast technology magazine Wired has named the editorial team for its website – set to launch in April to coincide with the print title.
Former online technology editor for Times Online, Holden Frith, takes up the reins as editor of Wired.co.uk; while the site’s news editor will be Katie Scott from Pocket-Lint.
Thanks to Tom Whitwell, assistant editor for Times Online, for bringing this to our attention: today’s print edition of the Times complete with joint byline for developer Julian Burgess.
The graphic printed was a visualisation of answers to a blog post on the Times’ Comment Central, which asked readers what their biggest hope for President elect Barack Obama was.
So, it’s all change at the Times and Times Online.
Anne Spackman, as reported last week, is now the comment editor of the main paper, after a spell as editor-in-chief at Times Online since 2006.
That role is not being replaced. Instead:
Speaking in a press release, the Times’ editor, James Harding said: “Anne Spackman has done an extraordinary job at Times Online bringing our journalism to more people than at any time in our history.
“She has expanded the nature of what we do as a news organisation, introducing a 24/7 newsroom, launching The Times Archive and developing our podcasts, video and reader comments online”, he said.
Praising the new online assistant editor, Harding said that Tom Whitwell had “been one of the driving forces behind the phenomenal growth of Times journalism online and our audiences worldwide.”
This post has backfired a little: the original idea was to look at how the national broadsheets reported the ABCes because it’s always interesting when a publication or website has to report on itself – on its good or bad performance.
Here’s how the Guardian did it today:
That obsession [Team GB] most obviously helped the Guardian, which took advantage of the Beijing effect. That meant that guardian.co.uk remained the UK’s biggest online newspaper for August, attracting 23.11 million global unique users last month, a 46% increase from August 2007 and up 12% on July this year. The Guardian added 2.5 million unique users last month and still has the largest number of UK-based online readers: 8.77 million or 38% of its total audience.
And on the day itself like this.
And Telegraph.co.uk?
It looks like they didn’t.
Times Online?
It appears not.
Independent.co.uk?
Nope.
FT.com
No.
Please correct us if we’re wrong.
Looks like there was only one national newspaper who gave the August stats so much online space. But you could read about the ABCes at Brand Republic, Press Gazette, NMA and here at Journalism.co.uk. Or find the data for yourself here.
The Times website wants to carry more video content from Sky News.
Times Online editor-in-chief, Anne Spackman, told MediaGuardian.co.uk that negotiations to make this happen were at an early stage on the newspaper website carrying breaking news videos from Sky.
Any deal is likely to improve the online video offering from the Times.
Despite being one of the first national newspapers to adopt a TV service the Times offering has fallen behind other nationals – in terms of quality – and seems to be due an overhaul.