The Baptist Times
The Baptist Times is a weekly newspaper produced in Didcot, Oxfordshire, reporting on the Baptist Church in Britain.
It has been in production since 1885 and today has an estimated readership of 24,000.[1]
It has won the 's Andrew Cross Award for the best regional paper, for its production of a daily paper for the in 2005.
Due to falling circulation and difficulties of selling advertising space, the paper ceased publication in November 2011, with plans for a retrospective to be published in January 2012.
Fake news controversy[]
In November 2019, an EU Watchdog uncovered evidence The Baptist Times was among 265 media outlets which had been used by an India-based influence network to spread disinformation about Pakistan.[2][3]
References[]
- ^ "Baptist Times". www.church123.com.
- ^ Lakshmanan, Ravie (2019-11-14). "265 Indian fake news sites caught pushing anti-Pakistan propaganda". The Next Web. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
- ^ Kapur, Manavi. "A European NGO says a global network of fake media outlets set up the EU MPs' Kashmir visit". Quartz India. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
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Categories:
- Baptist newspapers
- Publications established in 1885
- Publications disestablished in 2011
- Newspapers published in Oxfordshire
- 1885 establishments in England
- 2011 disestablishments in England
- Baptist Christianity in the United Kingdom
- Weekly newspapers published in the United Kingdom
- Defunct weekly newspapers