''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

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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'' sister organisations are the former 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

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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. Recent expansions of the outlet include the 2022 launch of ''Byline Supplement,'' the outlet's additional

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newsletter, and Byline Audio, set up in 2024 to bring together the outlet's podcasts.

Staff

The editor of ''Byline Times'' is Hardeep Matharu. Other writers and staff include its Special Investigations Reporter Nafeez Ahmed, former ''

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'' political columnist

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, former BBC journalist Adrian Goldberg who hosts the ''Byline Times Podcast,'' former BBC ''

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'' reporter John Sweeney and author Otto English. The paper has also had contributions from others, including the actor and comedian

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. As of August 2024, ''Byline Times''' full-time reporting team included Political Editor Adam Bienkov, and Chief Reporter Josiah Mortimer.

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

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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

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in the Johnson government's allocation of contracts during the

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. In July 2023, ''Byline Times'' broke allegations of sexual impropriety by the journalist Dan Wootton. Wootton denied the allegations and sought to

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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 announced they would be taking no further action in respect of the matter.

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