Byline Times

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Formation	October 2018
UK media outlet. Founder came up with the name of Bellingcat.

Byline Times is a monthly print newspaper and daily podcast founded in October 2018 which "provides a platform for freelance reporters and writers to produce fearless journalism not found in the corporate media:. Byline Media also operates a subscriber funded video channel called Byline TV.

Own words

Byline Times does not intend to report the daily news cycle. That’s for others. Our aim is to concentrate on ‘what the papers don’t say’. We will follow the story wherever it goes, without fear or favour. No PR company, advertiser or press baron can influence the stories we choose to cover. Our integrity comes from our editorial independence. While the newspaper is not politically partisan, it is not neutral and stands against corruption, injustice and the erosion of truth and the rule of law. Accurate information is the lifeblood of a democracy and, although everyone is welcome to their own opinions, facts cannot be debated. Accuracy also requires us to report our country more fairly. Byline Times believes many communities and regions are misrepresented in the media because they are under-represented. We hope to give a voice to those not provided a platform elsewhere.

Reporting

Supporting the official narrative on the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Criticism

Alexander McKay described it as

And the Jukes vehicle, Byline Times, or as some people like to call it, Spyline Times, is typical of a certain variety of liberalism. Liberal leftism, shall we say, which has been all... All the rage for, shall we say, the centrist dad cohort in Britain and their equivalents in the United States....But this is the kind of person that, like, Byline Times is designed for. It's somebody who likes to consider themselves very progressive, anti-racist, etc., but also who is prone to being rabidly in favor of British wars overseas, particularity if they include evil Russians or Chinese, rabidly in favor of press censorship, against independent media; and for the things Peter Jukes advocates for, which include, of course, censorship on a vast scale orchestrated by the state..

McKay also pointed out the method of

In effect, that finding Russian connections hiding under every tweet and all sorts of things while slandering your actual journalists like Julian Assange. Jukes was central to the Cambridge Analytica story and precisely his contribution, one of his largest contributions, was promoting Christopher Wylie. Now Wiley's a rather forgotten figure. But he was this self-styled whistleblower who had worked for Cambridge Analytica. Now, he came out with a series of very bold claims about how, yes, that Cambridge Analytica had worked with Russian intelligence operatives and might have ties to Russia and was central to the victory of Brexit and Trump in 2016.

Bellingcat

According to Eliot Higgins, founder of spooky "investigative site" Bellingcat, Jukes came up with the name of the new organisation in 2014.