The Baptist Times

The Baptist Times
Owner(s)Baptist Union of Great Britain
Founded1885; 140 years ago (1885)
LanguageEnglish
CountryUnited Kingdom
ISSN0005-5786
Websitewww.baptisttimes.co.uk

The Baptist Times is a website owned by the Baptist Union of Great Britain reporting on the Baptist Church in Britain.

It has been in production (originally as a newspaper) since 1885 and today has an estimated readership of 24,000.[1]

It has won the Churches Media Council's Andrew Cross Award for the best regional paper, for its production of a daily paper for the Baptist World Congress in 2005.

Due to falling circulation and difficulties of selling advertising space, the paper ceased print publication in November 2011, with plans for a retrospective to be published in January 2012. The website launched in 2012.[2]

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.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ "Baptist Times". www.church123.com.
  2. ^ "Highams Park Baptist Church | the Baptist Times".
  3. ^ Lakshmanan, Ravie (2019-11-14). "265 Indian fake news sites caught pushing anti-Pakistan propaganda". The Next Web. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
  4. ^ Kapur, Manavi (13 November 2019). "A European NGO says a global network of fake media outlets set up the EU MPs' Kashmir visit". Quartz India. Retrieved 2019-11-24.