The Times of London is a daily newspaper in London, United Kingdom covering local news, sports, business, politics and community events.
The Times of London is a British national newspaper known for right-leaning political views, as is The Daily Telegraph. Foreigners (but rarely the British) sometimes refer to it as the London Times, in part to avoid confusion with The New York Times, The Straits Times or The Times of India among others.
The Times began publication in 1785 as the Daily Universal Register. It was published as a broadsheet for over 200 years before switching to tabloid format in 2004 in an effort to better serve younger readers. News Corporation bought The Times in 1981.
Circulation estimate: 660,000
This newspaper is owned by News Corporation.
The website is presented in the English language.
Very Good (15 votes)UK Consumers Flocking to Online News, Though Few Pay For It
-- Only 3.8 % pay for online news, while 68% of users report accessing it.
That's according to a new trends study released in December 2011 by Oliver & Ohlbaum, a British research form, which shows that multi-sourcing of news content is common to all news channels.
The average consumer uses 2.7 different forms of media to gather news. These include newspapers, online, mobile, television and...
Times of London Website Readership Goes From 20 Million a Month to 105,000 After Pay Wall
-- New York Magazine reported on November 2, 2010:
"Only 105,000 people paid either for one-pound day passes or two-pound monthly passes to view content on the website of the London Times, down from 20 million monthly users back before the pay wall was erected this summer. That's a drop down to 0.5 percent, and the number also includes subscribers who have bought access through the iPad. Parent company News Corporation is touting this...
Has Rupert Murdoch's Times of London Paywall Paid Off?
-- The Independent newspaper of London reported on September 2, 2010:
"Two months after Rupert Murdoch's decision to erect a subscription paywall around the websites of The Times and The Sunday Times, thus removing their content from search engines, the bold experiment is having a marked effect on the rest of British media. There are many who still wish the 79-year-old mogul well, hopeful that he is...
Times of London Puts Some Ads Outside the Wall and on iPad as Web Display Reduces
-- Guardian's paidContent:UK reported on August 9, 2010:
"Though they are often cast as distinct business models, advertising and paid content are not necessarily mutually exclusive - or are they?
Observations from Times Newspapers’ digital properties point to two different answers.
In one, The Times is now selling full-page display campaigns in to its iPad app, for which readers pay £9.99 per month. Campaigns spotted by...
Times of London Goes 'Tentatively Paid'
-- paidContent.org reported on July 1, 2010:
"We’ve covered every step in Times Newspapers’ conversion to paid websites - the initial plan, the confirmation, the blocking of stories from search engines and the launch in May of the two new websites behind a registration wall on a free preview basis. There’s really little left to add…
Except the actual date on which the free preview...
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