LabourList
LabourList homepage in February 2009
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Type of site
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Blog |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Company limited by guarantee |
| Editors |
Derek Draper (Jan 2009 – May 2009) Alex Smith (May 2009 – June 2009) Mark Ferguson (Dec 2010 – May 2015) Peter Edwards (Jan 2016 – ) |
| Revenue | £28,575 to November 2009, excluding advertising revenue (last publication) |
| Slogan(s) | Where Labour minded people come together |
| Website | http://www.labourlist.org |
| Alexa rank | 9,791 (UK) (April 2017[update]) |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Required to comment on posts |
| Launched | 10 January 2009 |
| Current status | Active |
LabourList is a British weblog supportive of, but independent of, the Labour Party, launched in 2009. Describing itself as Labour's "biggest independent grassroots e-network", the site's content includes news, commentary, interviews, campaign information, analysis and opinion from various contributors and sources across the Labour and trade union movement. It is funded by trade unions, adverts, and individual donors.
The site features breaking news, analysis, opinion, policy and ideas from a broad cross-section of the Labour movement from activists to cabinet ministers, in addition to regular editorials and posts by the sitting editor and a core group of columnists, which include Luke Akehurst and Maya Goodfellow. Ministers from the last Labour government have blogged on the site include Peter Mandelson, Ed Balls, David Miliband, Ed Miliband and Douglas Alexander. Labour movement figures such as Alastair Campbell, Sunder Katwala formerly of the Fabian Society, Jessica Asato of Progress and Neal Lawson of Compass number among LabourList's other frequent contributors. Draper himself claimed that the site had done "exceptionally well" to "ask for advice and contributions from readers" leading the "introduction of excellent new grassroots bloggers, like Dan McCurry", who "have much to contribute to the direction and strategy of our movement". The site has also developed journalists Laurie Penny and Rowenna Davis, and former editor Alex Smith.
Derek Draper commissioned Tangent, who had built the Labour Party's website, to build the LabourList website software in late 2008, prior to the website's launch on 10 January 2009.
In its first few months of life, much external commentary on LabourList was couched in the context of the site's problematic and controversial start, leading to the resignation of founder Derek Draper (see below). Writing on the publication of the Total Politics Top 100 Political Blogs, leading Tory blogger Iain Dale wrote: "Perhaps the biggest achievement goes to LabourList and Alastair Campbell, who both enter the top twenty after only seven months of blogging activity. For LabourList to appear anywhere at all following its disastrous start under the leadership of Derek Draper is a minor miracle in itself. But its new editor Alex Smith has established it as a serious left of centre forum in a very short time".
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