Still one of the world’s most prestigious titles, The Times has completed a move to new publishing technology which partly mirrors that at News Corp sites in Australia and the US.

Managing editor Craig Tregurtha says the change – part of News UK & Ireland’s Newsroom 360 reorganisation – has been a huge investment in the paper’s future, “both in terms of the new software and the training and education programme that has accompanied it”.

Publishing operations have switched to EidosMedia’s Méthode platform, with the system also used for its online editions, weekly supplements and separate Times Literary Supplement.

Other titles including the Sunday Times and The Sun are set to follow, with the platform set to serve a total of 1500 journalists and editors. “The Newsroom 360 project has given us the tools to get to grips with multiplatform journalism in the digital age,” Tregurtha says.

Méthode is also in use at the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and News Corp Australia’s portfolio of titles.

• Details of the News Corp Australia rollout – the largest and fastest Méthode deployment so far – were given to delegates at EidosMedia’s customer meeting in London last month.

Ttendees were also introduced to new features of the forthcoming 6.0 release including a new user more configurable interface designed to maximise user ergonomics and comfort. A new release of the Mémoapp adds new online and offline functions for mobile journalists and editors to create and edit multimedia news content using iPhones and iPads.

Méthode also has new social media tools includinga ‘dashboard’ providing an overview of reader responses to editorial content and new search tools.