''Tortoise Media'' is a British

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co-founded by former

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director and ''

The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' (f ...

'' editor James Harding. A funding campaign for the site launched on Kickstarter in October 2018 raised £539,035. The site went live in April 2019. The site's slogan is "Slow down, wise up."

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