part of the country, and to again quote, reach out to nonmetropolitan audiences beyond london and engagement in our national conversation , well, the impact of covid and movements like extinction rebellion or black lives matter, those stories are better told if everyone has an equal stake in them, irrespective of where they live. so what does it mean to have a non london bias when you are reporting the news? the market for producing local news is as tough as it s ever been. so, how do you do it? today we hear from four people about their new approaches to reporting across the uk. let me introduce them to you. lorna willis is in norwich and has been ceo of the regional and local news publisher archant since march. nick mitchell is in edinburgh and he is editor of the new website nationalworld a news site by regional reporters. he is involved in a series of new city website and has previously from the scotsman.
we did. i think it s been tough for all regional newspaper businesses. the language that we hear around regional press beginning crisis is somewhere at the mark. i think that archant had been on a good trajectory for the last two or three years in terms of the level of innovation that we ve employed for that we ve been hit and we ve been struggling with a very heavy pension deficit. but beyond that pension deficit i think the level of innovation that this business has been showing. the .net two years ago we started working very closely with pure gold and actually on one hand there s always a pressure of pension deficit suddenly would happen we started working with google, we had some money in the bank to invest and be given the space to innovate. as a result of the project,
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
plans to shift focus from the capital and i quote, in a commitment to better reflect, represent and serve all parts of the country. when gb news launched it promised new voices from every part of the country, and to again quote, reach out to nonmetropolitan audiences beyond london and engagement in our national conversation . well, the impact of covid and movements like extinction rebellion or black lives matter, those stories are better told if everyone has an equal stake in them, irrespective of where they live. so what does it mean to have a non london bias when you are reporting the news? the market for producing local news is as tough as it s ever been. so, how do you do it? today we hear from four people about their new approaches to reporting across the uk. let me introduce them to you. lorna willis is in norwich and has been ceo of the regional and local news publisher archant since march. nick mitchell is in edinburgh and he is editor of the new website
in wales and that has attracted lots of comments, not just from welsh media i but from uk media as well. shazia, i know your newsroom is still very 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 release information about how people don t need an proof of address or an id to register at gps yet there are still barriers and we need that information to get to the people that need it. we need journalists from those communities to advocate for that. ok, that s a flavour of my four guests and the stories we re looking at there. lorna, tell us a little bit about archant. the titles and the regions that you cover. archant, we ve been around for about 170 years.