the brand new online safety editor at reach. you only started this role, i think, a fortnight ago. congratulations. which newspaper titles will you be working with at reach? well, i m going to be working across the board at reach, so kind of group wide, so that s the national titles and the regionals as well. obviously they re quite different in terms of what they do, but actually this issue is an issue across the board. well, that s great. welcome to the programme. and i m going to start, of course, with, you know, ian carter, you know, this awful tragedy in the channel, tell us how you covered it. and then how readers responded, some readers responded. i mean, we covered it in the way you d expect us expect us to cover it. it was a terrible tragedy and, you know, it got worse the more it unfolded. we heard the early reports that three or four people may have drowned, and then of course it magnified and then all of a sudden you look and dozens of people have died. an absolutely terrib
but we ll start the programme with that question i posed at the top, the role that reader comments play in journalism. ian carter is editorial director at iliffe media, and, ian, before we get into your experiences last week, tell us more about the titles you ve got. because i think you re one of the last family owned newspaper groups. we are indeed. iliffe itself is a very long established publishing company. the family s run papers for centuries, but the titles we have now, newspapers include the kent messenger, the daily free press, the cambridge independent. we run lots of websites, kent online being our biggest one. fantastic, and rebecca whittington, i m going to bring you in here because you re the brand new online safety editor at reach. you only started this role, i think, a fortnight ago. congratulations. which newspaper titles will you be working with at reach? well, i m going to be working across the board at reach,
roof is falling down. it s being held up by over 200 polls. we are campaigning to save that hospital in a way that the bbc will never be able to bring that to life on that national agenda. so while those national stories impact us, ourjob is to really translate those on a local level and allow those local communities to have a voice and for us to campaign forthem. nick, tell us a bit more about national world. this is a company that bought outjpi media at the end of last year. again, a little bit like lorna, give us a sense of the titles that are currently in your portfolio. obviously, jpi media is a historic regional| publisher and was bought over by national poc at the time of year. there are approximately 150 newspaper titles - across the uk that we operate. ranging from the scotsman to the yorkshire post, - a real range of regional, national and local titles. i think the interesting thing| with what we done this year since march is try to take . a new approach with digital first,
much in the making, but what are you concentrating on despite that? well i m excited to explore how the migrants have access to the vaccine. we ve seen nhs england information about how people don t need an proof of address or an id to register at gps yet they are still barriers and we need that information to get the people that need it. we need journalist from that of those communities to advocate that. ok, that s a flavour of my four as of the stories we re looking at there. lorna, tell us a little bit about argent. the titles in the regions that you cover. archant, we ve been around for about a years. we have around 50 newspaper titles which for daily titles, we cover east anglia, the southwest, temperature and a few local titles in london. and if there is
we built the most advanced voice infrastructure in terms of uk media. and were excited to be launching that over the next 18 months. so to say hard times. actually we had drill covid, everybody said their story to tell it has been horrendous for everyone in the businesses we look after. but actually, no, outside of the industry people look in and think wow, it s off inside the industry. we are incredibly limited. we work with a huge amount of talent every day. challenging but extremely exciting. but some jobs did go didn t pay? absolutely. we reach staffed business inevitably. impose covid we ve reshot business. one of the things was keeping journalist and that s what we done. and the older, more established newspaper titles and you have many and you re stable, how much do they still matter when people are finding so many