Byline Times

Byline Times is a British newspaper and website founded in March 2019 by Peter Jukes and Stephen Colegrave, who are also its executive editors. It is a development of Byline, a crowdfunding and media outlet platform founded in April 2015 by Seung-yoon Lee and Daniel Tudor.

Operations

The newspaper is published monthly for subscribers, while BylineTimes.com functions as a free news site. Byline Times's sister organisations are the crowdfunding journalism platform Byline.com, investigative unit Byline Investigates, the Byline Times Podcast, Byline Books and the annual summer event Byline Festival. All are separate entities. Byline Times is also published by Bywire News, an "independent blockchain news network", whose other partners include The Canary, Labour Buzz, Not the News, Business Wales, Our.London, and Media Reform Coalition (MRC) which, according to Bywire, means "each article contains a record on the blockchain detailing when it was created, by whom, and any revisions which are made and when". In 2020, Byline Media collaborated with George Llewelyn and Caolan Robertson to create Byline TV, a subscriber-funded video channel.

Staff

The editor of Byline Times is Hardeep Matharu. Other staff include its Special Investigations Reporter Nafeez Ahmed, former Spectator political columnist Peter Oborne, former BBC journalist Adrian Goldberg who hosts the Byline Times Podcast, former BBC Panorama reporter John Sweeney and author Otto English. The paper has also had contributions from others, including the actor and comedian John Cleese.

Purpose

Interviewed in 2019, Matharu described the purpose of Byline Times as to "really dig down and investigate [...] pressing social issues, many of them to do with justice, or a lack of, which for one reason or another are not being widely or extensively reported on elsewhere." Jukes described the newspaper as providing "what the [other] papers don't say" and said it would be similar in tone to the broadsheet news magazine FT Weekend.

Significant stories

Stories broken by Byline Times have been picked up by other media outlets. These include allegations of cronyism in the Johnson government's allocation of contracts during the COVID-19 pandemic. In July 2023, Byline Times broke allegations of sexual impropriety by the journalist Dan Wootton. Wootton denied the allegations and sought to crowdfund legal fees for a case against the paper. Byline Times subsequently said its journalists had been targeted with threats and intimidation, without suggesting Wootton was involved. In February 2024 the Metropolitan Police cleared Wootton of any wrongdoing and announced they would be taking no further action.

See also

• Alternative media in the United Kingdom

References

External links

• Official website
• Byline TV