The Guardian Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Online media== ''The Guardian'' and its Sunday sibling ''The Observer'' publish all their news online, with free access both to current news and an archive of three million stories. A third of the site's hits are for items over a month old.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2005/oct/08/comment.comment|title=Editor's week|work=The Guardian|date=8 October 2005|location=London|last=Bell|first=Emily|access-date=13 December 2016|archive-date=2 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202122130/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2005/oct/08/comment.comment|url-status=live}}</ref> As of May 2013, it was the most popular UK newspaper website with 8.2 million unique visitors per month, just ahead of ''[[Mail Online]]'' with 7.6 million unique monthly visitors.<ref name="journalism553108">{{cite web|title=Guardian.co.uk most read newspaper site in UK in March|url=http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/nrs-guardian-co-uk-is-uk-s-top-monthly-news-site/s2/a553108/|first=Alastair|last=Reid|website=www.journalism.co.uk|access-date=17 June 2014|date=30 May 2013|archive-date=29 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529024520/http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/nrs-guardian-co-uk-is-uk-s-top-monthly-news-site/s2/a553108/|url-status=live}}</ref> In April 2011, [[Haymarket Media Group|MediaWeek]] reported that ''The Guardian'' was the fifth most popular newspaper site in the world.<ref>{{cite news|work=MediaWeek|date=19 April 2011|title=MailOnline overtakes Huffington Post to become world's no 2|url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/46605|publisher=Haymarket|first=Arif|last=Durrani|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513011131/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/46605|archive-date=13 May 2013}}</ref> Journalists use an analytics tool called Ophan, built entirely in-house, to measure website data around stories and audience.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/how-ophan-offers-bespoke-data-to-inform-content-at-the-guardian/s2/a563349|title=Ophan: Key metrics informing editorial at The Guardian|last=Edge|first=Abigail|date=2 December 2014|website=Journalism.co.uk|access-date=23 March 2019|archive-date=6 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706143706/https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/how-ophan-offers-bespoke-data-to-inform-content-at-the-guardian/s2/a563349/|url-status=live}}</ref> However, the number of online readers had drastically dropped by July 2021.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.statista.com/statistics/529970/uk-online-newspaper-market-by-daily-average-unique-browsers/|title=Average daily audience of online newspaper brands in the United Kingdom (UK) in July 2021|first=Amy|last=Watson|publisher=Statista|date=30 June 2022|accessdate=21 January 2023|archive-date=22 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230122175611/https://www.statista.com/statistics/529970/uk-online-newspaper-market-by-daily-average-unique-browsers/|url-status=live}}</ref> ''The Guardian'' launched an [[iOS]] [[mobile app]]lication for its content in 2009.<ref>{{cite news |last=Bunz |first=Mercedes |date=14 December 2009 |title=Guardian launches iPhone application |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/dec/14/guardian-launches-iphone-application |work=The Guardian |access-date=14 October 2018 |archive-date=14 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014164951/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/dec/14/guardian-launches-iphone-application |url-status=live }}</ref> An [[Android (operating system)|Android]] app followed in 2011.<ref>{{cite news |last=Mitchell |first=Jon |date=7 September 2011 |title=The Guardian Launches a Powerful, Free Android App |url=https://readwrite.com/2011/09/07/the_guardian_launches_a_powerful_free_android_app/ |publisher=readwrite |access-date=14 October 2018 |archive-date=14 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014130128/https://readwrite.com/2011/09/07/the_guardian_launches_a_powerful_free_android_app/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2018, the newspaper announced its apps and mobile website would be redesigned to coincide with its relaunch as a tabloid.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=15 January 2018 |title=Guardian launches digital redesign to coincide with launch of new Guardian tabloid newspaper |url=https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-australia-press-office/2018/jan/15/guardian-launches-digital-redesign-to-coincide-with-launch-of-new-guardian-tabloid-newspaper |work=The Guardian |access-date=14 October 2018 |archive-date=14 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014165008/https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-australia-press-office/2018/jan/15/guardian-launches-digital-redesign-to-coincide-with-launch-of-new-guardian-tabloid-newspaper |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Comment is Free]] section features columns by the paper's journalists and regular commentators, as well as articles from guest writers, including readers' comments and responses below. The section includes all the opinion pieces published in the paper itself, as well as many others that only appear online. Censorship is exercised by Moderators who can ban posts – with no right of appeal – by those who they feel have overstepped the mark. ''The Guardian'' has taken what they call a very "open" stance in delivering news, and have launched an open platform for their content. This allows external developers to easily use ''Guardian'' content in external applications, and even to feed third-party content back into the ''Guardian'' network.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.idioplatform.com/the-guardian-im-impressed/|title=The Guardian: I'm impressed|work=[[idio]]|date=1 June 2010|access-date=26 July 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116131831/http://www.idioplatform.com/the-guardian-im-impressed/|archive-date=16 January 2013}}</ref> ''The Guardian'' also had a number of talkboards that were noted for their mix of political discussion and whimsy until they were closed on Friday, 25 February 2011 after they had settled a libel action brought after months of harassment of a conservative party activist.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=27 June 2018|title=Corrections and clarifications|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/mar/08/corrections-clarifications|date=8 March 2011|website=The Guardian|archive-date=27 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627144732/https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/mar/08/corrections-clarifications|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2011/feb/28/guardian-unlimited-talkboards|title=Guardian Unlimited Talkboard closure|work=The Guardian|date=28 February 2011|location=London|last=Gibson|first=Janine|publisher=Guardian News and Media|access-date=13 December 2016|archive-date=2 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202122022/https://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2011/feb/28/guardian-unlimited-talkboards|url-status=live}}</ref> They were spoofed in ''The Guardian''{{'s}} own regular humorous Chatroom column in ''G2''. The spoof column purported to be excerpts from a chatroom on permachat.co.uk, a real URL that pointed to ''The Guardian''{{'s}} talkboards. In August 2013, a webshow titled ''Thinkfluencer''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2013/aug/29/thinkfluencer-episode-1-selfies-video |title=#Thinkfluencer episode 1: Selfies – video | Technology |work=The Guardian |date=23 August 2013 |access-date=6 March 2016 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304095012/http://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2013/aug/29/thinkfluencer-episode-1-selfies-video |url-status=live }}</ref> was launched by Guardian Multimedia in association with [[Arte]]. In 2004 the paper also launched a dating website, Guardian Soulmates.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://soulmates.theguardian.com/ |title=Online Dating Site UK | Guardian Soulmates |publisher=Soulmates.theguardian.com |access-date=6 March 2016 |archive-date=6 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306120248/https://soulmates.theguardian.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> On 1 July 2020, Guardian Soulmates was closed down with the explanation: "It hasn't been an easy decision to make, but the online dating world is a very different place to when we first launched online in July 2004. There are so many dating apps now, so many ways to meet people, which are often free and very quick."<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=12 June 2021|date=1 July 2020|url=https://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2020/jul/01/guardian-soulmates-has-come-to-an-end|title=Guardian Soulmates has come to an end|archive-date=22 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822181412/https://soulmates.theguardian.com/blog/dating-locations/dating/should-we-still-use-sexuality-as-a-social-descriptor|url-status=live}}</ref> An American version of the website titled ''Guardian America'' was an American version of the British news website ''Guardian Unlimited'' intended to win more U.S.-based readers. It was abandoned in October 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://paidcontent.org/2009/10/20/419-gnm-axing-guardianamerica-com-shuffling-execs-in-restructure/|title=GNM Axing GuardianAmerica.com, Shuffling Execs In Restructure|last=Andrews|first=Robert|date=20 October 2009|publisher=[[PaidContent]]|access-date=3 March 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130624042418/http://paidcontent.org/2009/10/20/419-gnm-axing-guardianamerica-com-shuffling-execs-in-restructure/|archive-date=24 June 2013}}</ref> ''The Guardian'' launched an [[.onion]] version of its website on the [[Tor (network)|Tor]] network in May 2022,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Chauvin |first=Mariot |date=30 May 2022 |title=Guardian launches Tor onion service |url=https://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2022/may/30/guardian-launches-tor-onion-service |access-date=7 October 2022 |newspaper=The Guardian |archive-date=7 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221007132803/https://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2022/may/30/guardian-launches-tor-onion-service |url-status=live }}</ref> with assistance from [[Alec Muffett]].<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Soul |first1=Jon |last2=Kokkini |first2=Ioanna |date=6 October 2022 |title=How we built the Guardian's Tor Onion service |url=https://www.theguardian.com/info/2022/oct/06/how-we-built-the-guardians-tor-onion-service |access-date=7 October 2022 |newspaper=The Guardian |archive-date=6 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221006212943/https://www.theguardian.com/info/2022/oct/06/how-we-built-the-guardians-tor-onion-service |url-status=live }}</ref> ===Podcasts=== The paper entered [[podcasting]] in 2005 with a twelve-part weekly [[podcast]] series by [[Ricky Gervais]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/dec/08/radio.broadcasting1|title=Gervais to host Radio 2 Christmas show|work=MediaGuardian|date=8 December 2005|last=Deans|first=Jason|location=London|publisher=Guardian News and Media|access-date=13 December 2016|archive-date=3 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170103004831/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/dec/08/radio.broadcasting1|url-status=live}}</ref> In January 2006, Gervais' show topped the [[iTunes]] podcast chart having been downloaded by two million listeners worldwide,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/jan/23/radio.mondaymediasection1|title=Comedy stars and radio DJs top the download charts|work=The Guardian|date=23 January 2006|location=London|access-date=13 December 2016|archive-date=2 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202121907/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/jan/23/radio.mondaymediasection1|url-status=live}}</ref> and was scheduled to be listed in the 2007 ''[[Guinness Book of Records]]'' as the most downloaded podcast.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/feb/06/radio.newmedia|title=Gervais podcast in the record books|work=MediaGuardian|date=6 February 2006|last=Plunkett|first=John|location=London|publisher=Guardian News and Media|access-date=13 December 2016|archive-date=6 September 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080906132518/http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1703591,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref> ''The Guardian'' now offers several regular podcasts made by its journalists. One of the most prominent is ''Today in Focus'', a daily news podcast hosted by [[Anushka Asthana]] and launched on 1 November 2018. It was an immediate success<ref name="BMA_20190522">{{Cite news | title = Today in Focus: The Guardian's daily news podcast | series = Guardian News & Media | work = Campaign British Publishing Awards | access-date = 3 November 2019 | url = http://www.britishmediaawards.com/finalists/today-in-focus---the-guardians-daily-new/ | date = 22 May 2019 | archive-date = 3 November 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191103214859/https://www.britishmediaawards.com/finalists/today-in-focus---the-guardians-daily-new/ | url-status = dead }}</ref> and became one of the UK's most-downloaded podcasts.<ref name="BMA_20190522"/><ref>{{Cite web| title = Today in Focus on Apple Podcasts| work = Apple Podcasts| access-date = 3 November 2019| url = https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/today-in-focus/id1440133626| archive-date = 3 November 2019| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191103221245/https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/today-in-focus/id1440133626| url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web| title = Top 100 UK Podcasts (Apple Podcasts Top Charts)| work = Podcast Insights®| access-date = 3 November 2019| date = 17 December 2018| url = https://www.podcastinsights.com/top-uk-podcasts/| archive-date = 3 November 2019| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191103220355/https://www.podcastinsights.com/top-uk-podcasts/| url-status = live}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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