Press Gazette reports that The Times is following the Guardian's lead and launching a comment blog.
The blog, Comment Central, will be written by Daniel Finkelstein who is the paper's comment editor and will feature daily comment on breaking news stories and report on current online debates.
The Times will also be producing a downloadable business briefing called The Note which, according to Press Gazette, will contain:
"... news, analysis and comment on the day’s biggest business stories."
The Note will be edited by former Financial News web editor, Phillip Robinson. and will be available as a pdf downlaod daily from 5pm.
No word yet when these will go live.
I'm depressed because I'm old enough to remember that Danny Finkelstein is a geek. He once was a tech journo and was editor of Connexions(?) an IT trade mag about networking, telecoms, datacoms etc. That was when he was still in the SDP and cited in an early (first?) edition of The Independent as one of the bright young things with a great future.
Posted by: Stuart Bruce - Wolfstar | September 04, 2006 at 01:05 PM
I'm even older than Stuart, but his memory's good. Danny Finkelstein was editor in the early 1990s of Connexion, a fortnightly VNU publication about computer networks (but even then was evidently more interested in politics: I remember him noting the arrival of Frank Dobson at a Soho restaurant where we were having lunch). He and colleague Rick Nye went on to work at the Social Market Foundation. Both of them, along with my former PR colleage Rob Wilson, went on a political journey from the SDP to the Conservatives. (Wilson's now an MP.)
Posted by: Richard Bailey | September 06, 2006 at 10:36 AM
That was when he was still in the SDP and cited in an early (first?) edition of The Independent as one of the bright young things with a great future
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