Ben Jackson
I build stories. Senior sub-editor @thetimes.com
- From The Sopranos, S6E3
- From @thetimes.com archive, 100 years ago today
- Put me on the next flight to Egypt
- 25 years on, Stephen King’s memoir is still the best guide for writers
- Kanpai
- TIL the collective noun for ladybirds is a loveliness
- Good.
- I’m part of a team whose job is to keep The Times and The Sunday Times true to their principles. Check out this video from our new campaign:
- The Times paywall is down this weekend. Visit thetimes.com 📰
- Just finished reading the Times style guide from cover to cover … five stars
- It’s true what they’re saying. Conclave is a great film
- This is a must-read
- No verification system is perfect but Bluesky’s domains as usernames is pretty good. MPs could use their own websites or parliament.uk could verify them eg @/kemibadenoch.parliament.uk
- The Kemi account is fake according to @samcoatessky.bsky.social Shows the verification issue…
- Reposted by Ben JacksonWant to nobble lobby brain? It’s here now. There’s going to be a big influx of names/institutions on Tuesday afternoon once every comms team has had their start-of-week Monday morning catch-up and taken a day to get sign-off.
- Welcome to Bluesky, @theguardian.com 🦋
- Reposted by Ben JacksonI've created a starter pack of brilliant data journalists worth a follow I'll add to it when I see / think of more, but feel free to suggest additions! go.bsky.app/KTYrwk3at://did:plc:4dxruegjw6hl3fedhrzad2td/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lb2wnwmbhl2k
- From @thetimes.com: the rise of Bluesky and what it could mean for Elon Musk’s X
- Reposted by Ben JacksonGoing to do a quick thread of my fellow @thetimes.com reporters who are on BlueSky and why you should follow them 👇
- You know Bluesky is booming when #FPL (that’s Fantasy Premier League) accounts start joiningat://did:plc:3zlrx3sn7fhib2r2q6hv4o2d/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3laqj6yfdf62w
- Reposted by Ben JacksonBluesky has the edge where X once dominated: news and live events.
- Reposted by Ben JacksonIn the week since the U.S. presidential election, Elon Musk has used X, the social media platform he owns, to reiterate his support for President-elect Donald Trump. Some of X’s users have decided they want to post elsewhere. Among the largest beneficiaries of that desire is Bluesky. nyti.ms/48JtYAt
- Wordwork 👌
- As someone who loves and works with words, the idea of losing them is terrifying. I was moved by this story
- My migration to Bluesky is complete and it feels great. Tip for people who still need to use X sometimes for work etc: hide it from your Home Screen and put Bluesky where it was. I haven’t even opened X in ages 🦋
- “Audiences vote with their attention”
- 🚨 The Times will be free to read this Wednesday and Thursday. Get your US election news and analysis at thetimes.com
- Saw this advert on Instagram so it must be true — free access to @thetimes.com for the US election 📰✨
- Revealed: the property empires that make Charles and William millions
- My first visit to New York
- Our reporter’s life in Gaza — and how she fled with her children (no paywall, in @thetimes.com) www.thetimes.com/article/6ff0...
- The DJ booth at the Lexington, Islington
- The Worker’s Maypole by Andrea Bowers. Seen at the Tate Modern, London
- The Times and The Sunday Times are free to read this weekend. thetimes.com
- This features the perfect line: “Plato would have been built like a brick shithouse, if such a thing had existed in ancient Greece.”
- Visited the reopened National Portrait Gallery in London. Seeing this never gets old
- Story of the day
- Oppenheimer (2023)
- In 1985 The Times marked its 200th birthday with a book. This advert from its pages makes for interesting reading … bring on the holograms
- It’s been 100 days since Evan Gershkovich, of The Wall Street Journal, was detained by Russia during a reporting trip and falsely accused of espionage. Journalism is not a crime. He must be released immediately
- Thinking about all the insufferable brands on Threads … I’m concerned that one day they’ll make their way on to Bluesky. We’ll need a custom feed that blocks them
