''Byline Times'' is a British newspaper and website founded in October 2018 by

Peter Jukes Peter Jukes (born 13 October 1960) is an English author, screenwriter, playwright, literary critic and journalist. He is the co-founder and executive editor of ''Byline Times''. Early life Jukes was born in Swindon, Wiltshire, England, and atte ...

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. The newspaper is published monthly for subscribers, while ''BylineTimes.com'' functions as a free news site. ''Byline Times'' 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. The editor of ''Byline Times'' is Hardeep Matharu. Other notable staff include its Special Investigations Reporter

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, former Spectator Political Columnist

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, former BBC journalist

Adrian Goldberg Adrian Goldberg (born in Harborne, Birmingham) is an English journalist, radio and television presenter. He currently hosts the ''Byline Times Podcast'' and ''The Liquidator Podcast,'' a West Bromwich Albion fan podcast. Family background Adr ...

who hosts the ''Byline Times Podcast,'' former BBC ''

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'' reporter John Sweeney and author

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. The paper has also had contributions from other notable people, such as actor and comedian

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. 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 ''

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''. Stories broken by ''Byline Times'' have often 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 2020, Byline Media collaborated with George Llewelyn & Caolan Robertson to create Byline TV, a subscriber-funded video channel.

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British political websites Internet properties established in 2018 Investigative journalism National newspapers published in the United Kingdom Crowdfunded journalism