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PinkNews is a UK-based online newspaper marketed to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community ( LGBT). It was founded by Benjamin Cohen in 2005 and covers politics, religion, entertainment, finance, and community news for the LGBT community in the UK and worldwide. The current UK editor as of March 2015 is Nick Duffy.
It closely follows political progress on LGBT rights around the world, and carries interviews with cultural figures, politicians and British Prime Ministers. The news is split into different sections, with most recent, prominent and trending stories showing on the home page by default. People can filter news by the sections they have most interest in, including transgender, entertainment, world, politics, arts, and opinion.
The paper version, The Pink News was officially launched at the Law Society on 28 June 2006 by Francis Maude, Chairman of the Conservative Party, Meg Munn, Minister for Equality, Simon Hughes, President of the Liberal Democrats and Meg Hillier, MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch. It was suspended without explanation in early 2007 but the website continues to exist and is updated with news daily. Pinknews.co.uk was ranked the 7th most visited website in the UK in the Lifestyle - Gay and Lesbian category by Experian Hitwise in 2012, up from 9th in 2011.
PinkNews pays special attention to the topic of religion and homosexuality, and is often critical of the Vatican for its perceived hostility to the LGBT community. However, it became one of the few LGBT publications to have interviewed a sitting Archbishop of Canterbury in 2014, when Justin Welby discussed the Church of England's approach to homosexuality. In 2015 the PinkNews app was launched at the annual PinkNews Awards held at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in London in front of guests such as former Labour leader Ed Miliband, former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond and BBC presenter Victoria Derbyshire. The app was developed by Manchester-based app development agency, Dreamr.