Telegraph goes confidential with Westminster blog
LONDON - The Telegraph Online has joined The Times and The Guardian in launching a political blog, Commons Confidential, which will feature a daily round-up of stories from Westminster.
The blog, which the Telegraph said would uncover the stories politicians are trying to suppress, follows this month's launch of The Times' Comment Central, edited by former Tory adviser Daniel Finkelstein, and The Guardian's Comment is Free, which launched earlier this year.
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Commons Confidential has arrived in time for the Conservative Party Conference, which begins in Bournemouth on October 1, bringing the total number of Telegraph blogs to 40.
Among the contributors are fashion director Hilary Alexander, US correspondent Alec Russell and Spy editor Celia Walden.
George Jones, political editor of the Telegraph, will host lunchtime video interviews with its political commentators, part of the strategic partnership The Telegraph Group agreed with ITN earlier this month.
The Telegraph Group, which has just relocated to multimillion-pound premises in London's Victoria, has been integrating its digital and print content and expanding its online capabilities in the last year.
Jones said: "The great thing about Commons Confidential is its immediacy -- readers can be kept up to date on the stories politicians would rather keep under wraps as they happen."
Traffic to the Telegraph Online's blogs has doubled in the last six months according to the title.
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