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. and also have radio stations down in kent. so, a real big media portfolio. 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, 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
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 ve got now, newspapers include the kent messenger, the daily free press, the cambridge independent. we run lots of websites, kent online being our biggest one. and also have radio stations down in kent. so, a real big media portfolio. 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, 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
into how newspapers cover islam. rizwana hamid is director of the centre for media monitoring, a project of the muslim council of britain. and we ll be talking to her later, too. 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. and also radio stations down in kent. so, a real big media portfolio. fantastic, and rebecca whittington, i m going to bring you in here because you re