Type of site | Journalism |
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Available in | English |
Founded | September 2009 |
URL |
www |
Commercial | Yes |
Registration | Yes |
The Arts Desk (theartsdesk.com) is a British arts journalism website containing reviews, interviews, news, and other content related to music, theatre, television, films, and other art forms written by journalists from a variety of traditional and web-based publications. [1] [2]
It launched in September 2009 as a shareholder collective. [3] [4] In its launching year, it drew around 2000 daily visitors. [4] From 2010 to 2013, its honorary chairman was John Tusa. [5] [6] Its contributing editors are made up by professional critics and veteran journalists [7] who have worked for publications such as The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph. They are freelance reviewers of art, music, dance and theatre, who post reviews online. [6] In 2019, it signed a deal with JPI Media that would allow I news to feature arts reviews and other articles written by the website's editors. [8]
Contributors to the website include Aleks Sierz and Adam Sweeting.
Upon its launch, The Telegraph deemed it as one of the best culture websites on the internet. [3] In 2012, it won an Online Media Award as the best specialist journalism site, jointly with the website for The Economist. [9] Prospect magazine described it as "Britain’s first professional arts critics website". [10]