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Ben Dilks

@BenDilks

Assistant Editor, @DailyMail. I like techno, trifle and being told stuff before other people know

 London, United Kingdom
Joined April 2009
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Tip for @British_Airways: When you fluff the comms for a launch don’t double down by telling your customers they are thick.
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🤓Great to be featured in this week’s WTF is SEO newsletter on headline writing 🤓 seoforjournalism.com/p/headl…
Winning headline strategies from news SEO experts

Winning headline strategies from news SEO experts

Headlines, headlines, headlines. SEO pros from top publications and agencies provide expert insight on writing headlines for every type of content (evergreen, Discover, Top Stories).

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“We are in the business of holding the powerful to account... not necessarily for criminality but for the things we've been hearing about” Adam Boulton defends The Sun's publication of allegations that Huw Edwards paid a young person for explicit images bbc.in/2Ps915G

Newsnight 12/07/2023

political commentator Adam Boulton joins Victoria Derbyshire in studio

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Tom Harwood
@tomhfh12 Jul 2023
I have a feeling that because the person in question is a liberal BBC type and the newspaper that highlighted this all is The Sun… we are getting some very different reactions to this story from different quarters than we would had this been a Tory MP exposed by the guardian.
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Ridiculously good column.
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@FT7 Jul 2023
Diverse is not the same as cosmopolitan on.ft.com/3JOUMnp | opinion
Diverse is not the same as cosmopolitan

Diverse is not the same as cosmopolitan

And the second is much harder to achieve

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this week for @wtf_is_seo, we're SO excited to have @BenDilks and @LeonieRoderick from @thetimes for our Ask TWO News SEOs series!! 📰 we talk all things paywall and why it's important to talk to people outside your organization. 💪🔥 seoforjournalism.com/p/ben-d…
Ask a News SEO: Ben Dilks and Leonie Roderick on paywalls

Ask a News SEO: Ben Dilks and Leonie Roderick on paywalls

The Times & Sunday Times editors join us to discuss the value and challenge of paywalls for news SEO — plus the benefits of talking to your rivals.

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Deprived UK towns still feeling benefits of Tony Blair’s anti-poverty fund theguardian.com/society/2023…
Deprived UK towns still feeling benefits of Tony Blair’s anti-poverty fund

Deprived UK towns still feeling benefits of Tony Blair’s anti-poverty fund

Futurebuilders England Fund doubled economic output of some areas and improved deprivation levels by up to 17%

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@tomhfh15 Jun 2023
2130 and the park wardens are closing Soho square. Kicking everyone out. Utterly insane. This is London on nimbyism. Squeezing the life out of the city. Fix it @SadiqKhan.
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@bindelj3 Jun 2023
Do you know, it's funny but I can't find a single lesbian in this list of programmes to mark the holy month of Pride: bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/p…
Pride 2023 on BBC Three and iPlayer

Pride 2023 on BBC Three and iPlayer

There's a host of programming and content that explores and celebrates the LGBTQ+ community on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer during Pride month

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Between 1928 and 1931, a group of gay guys met on a beach to frolic and have some fun. We haven't got their names or where it was in the U.K. but we have their joy in these photos. From the Emmanuel Cooper #archives @BishopsgateInst #LGBTQIA
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Genuine question: Why does Crossrail stop for 5 mins at every station? #ElizabethLine
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One of the things I loved about Paul O'Grady's Lily Savage was how she was based on a woman he loved, not one he constructed from sexism or misogyny. Lily was a kick-ass working class woman I recognised, and Paul, excesses aside, got her to a tee.
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James Cook (@BBCJamesCook) profile pictureJames Cook@BBCJamesCook16 Mar 2023
NEW SNP leadership candidate Humza Yousaf just jokingly asked a group of Ukrainian women in Edinburgh “where are all the men?” There was polite and awkward laughter before they explained that many of their partners had stayed in Ukraine to fight in the war.
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Wowza at @IsabelOakeshott on how she came to leak Matt Hancock’s Whatsapps to the Tel after co-authoring his “Pandemic Diaries” 💥💥 #thelockdownfiles
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Incredible people. A must read: thetimes.co.uk/article/russi…
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YES 💪🏼💪🏼 telegraph.co.uk/health-fitne…
Madonna is refusing to disappear and, frankly, I’m all for it

Madonna is refusing to disappear and, frankly, I’m all for it

Are people in a lather because of what a 64-year-old has chosen to do to her face, or simply because she has dared to be so public about it?

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When Vlod met Charlie, or how this time the democracies defeated "resilience pessimism" and why it mattered. Me for @thetimes online now - bit.ly/40HSsWk
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