{"id":31264,"date":"2025-07-29T14:41:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/31264\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T14:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:41:16","slug":"times-drops-free-money-mentor-offering-in-personal-finance-pivot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/31264\/","title":{"rendered":"Times drops free Money Mentor offering in personal finance pivot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img width=\"1038\" height=\"778\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/TimesMoneymentor-1038x778.jpg\" class=\"attachment-4x3-large-crop size-4x3-large-crop wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pressgazette.co.uk\/subject\/the-times\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Times<\/a> has closed its Money Mentor section but says it is relaunching its personal finance offering instead.<\/p>\n<p>The Times launched Money Mentor in December 2019 as a free, in-front of the paywall site designed to \u201cdemystify finance\u201d and make it \u201cless complex and daunting\u201d for readers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Its Couch to \u00a35k newsletter, a six-week series aimed at helping people build up their savings, was named best financial newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/publishernewsletters.com\/2025\/en\/page\/winners2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">at the Publisher Newsletter Awards in June.<\/a> The brand was also shortlisted for its four-week Pension Power-Up series.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/money-mentor\/?msockid=1f77d4847b966ca33ce4c2ad7ab16d8f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">section\u2019s webpage<\/a> now reads: \u201cTimes Money Mentor is no longer operational, but you can still access a wide range of personal finance content and tools through\u00a0Times Money, at\u00a0thetimes.com\/business-money\/money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Times has appointed Ben Wilkinson, formerly head of money at The Telegraph, to lead a revamped money section which is set to officially launch in the autumn.<\/p>\n<p>A Times spokesperson told Press Gazette: \u201cThe\u00a0Times\u00a0and The Sunday\u00a0Times\u00a0are the destination for the very best personal finance journalism, useful tools, helpful analysis and expert advice. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo ensure we are delivering effectively to our subscribers and our commercial partners, as well as continuing to engage new audiences, we are folding the very best of\u00a0Times\u00a0Money\u00a0Mentor\u00a0into an even bigger and better\u00a0Money\u00a0section across The\u00a0Times\u00a0and The Sunday\u00a0Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe relaunched\u00a0Money\u00a0section will become a multiplatform proposition. It will have its own position in the main navigation menu online and in-app, with a proportion on the best content available beyond the paywall. There will be print supplements, newsletters,\u00a0Money\u00a0social channels and video content.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson added that they aim for the relaunched section to be \u201cthe single comprehensive, best-in-class personal finance offer in UK journalism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Times Money Mentor deputy editor Katie Binns told the Publisher Newsletter Summit in June that the Couch to \u00a35k and Pension Power-Up newsletters were \u201ctied up closely with what Times Money Mentor is about\u201d which was that it \u201cshows you how to save money, how to make money, how to manage money, and how to live a rich life\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribers to the limited-run newsletters were moved onto the main weekly Times Money Mentor email after they ended to keep them engaged.<\/p>\n<p>Binns said the newsletter also brought in affiliate revenue as it contained clickable deals on products like credit cards, insurance, ISAs and investment platforms.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the newsletter also takes readers to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLX-QFjLi1QG5oV-Fo1l7EAS4mSrz1n6uQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Times Money Mentor\u2019s Youtube series Bread and Honey<\/a>, which was recently sponsored by HSBC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuite quickly they start to enter the wider Times ecosystem,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>News UK stablemate <a href=\"https:\/\/pressgazette.co.uk\/subject\/the-sun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Sun<\/a> has recently <a href=\"https:\/\/pressgazette.co.uk\/the-wire\/media-jobs-uk-news\/sun-names-new-political-editor-and-drops-business-page\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">replaced its business page<\/a> with a daily Sun Money page focusing more heavily on consumer finance, led by head of consumer Tara Evans.<\/p>\n<p>Sun business editor Ashley Armstrong left the title in June to join the\u00a0Financial Times\u00a0and the role does not appear to have been replaced.<\/p>\n<p>\n    &#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Email <a href=\"https:\/\/pressgazette.co.uk\/news\/the-times-drops-free-money-mentor-offering-in-personal-finance-pivot\/mailto: pged@pressgazette.co.uk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pged@pressgazette.co.uk<\/a> to point out mistakes, provide story tips or send in a letter for publication on our &#8220;Letters Page&#8221; blog <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Times has closed its Money Mentor section but says it is relaunching its personal finance offering instead.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,4176,19146,4174,4175,19147,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-31264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-national-newspapers","11":"tag-personal-finance","12":"tag-personalfinance","13":"tag-the-times","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}