Page 37 - Nick Mitchell News Today

When we talk about google i think lots of people talk about the argument, google and facebook is kind of eating our lunch in terms of advertising. that argument is a decade old now. i think as an industry we need to pick ourselves up and get past that. the reason we are vocal around google is they came to the table before this got noisy. and they came to us and facebook, instagram, snapchat, they dont engage with us on regional level. google have come to our business, they got to know our busine...

They said ok, you got amazing talent in this business, here you go, heres some cash, go innovate. and go get sustainable. does that provide you with a sustainable financial platform to build on? it will do. so were going through the news experiment, but yes, thats the absolute plan. it will be in terms of reader sites along with other initiatives around working with our businesses. 0k. time is up, but thank you all very much indeed for taking part. thank you to all of my guests. nick mitchell, e...

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 websites and has previously from the scotsman. ifan morganjones in bangor and in 2017 founded nation.com an english language news site in wales. shazia ali is a journalist leading a new initiative for the peoples newsroom in swansea promot...

I dont believe you can do that with impartiality. an example of that is again talking about local hospitals, we have a hospital in kings lynn where the roof is falling down. its being held up by over 200 polls. —— poles. 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 at a local level and allow those local communities to have a voice...

Its incredibly important to our community is in readily important to our businesses and we are committed to keep delivering that service. nick, you mentioned your city websites. we launched four recently. manchester, liverpool... and tomorrow weve got london world on live. i youre allowed to do london, are you? were moving into the territory. thats tomorrow by birmingham and further down the line. - its been busy time for us. and the financing of those, how does that work? weve created new roles...

Well, theyre just not good at doing a good job. and actually were doing a bloody excellentjob. what google did was give us the space to breathe. does that provide you with a sustainable financial platform to build on? it will do. so were going through the experiment, but yes thats the absolute plan. it will be in terms of reader sites along with other initiatives around working with our businesses. 0k. time is up, but thank you all very much indeed for taking part. thank you to all of my guests....

Really struggling in terms of waiting lists at the moment — waiting list i think pre—covid we had 93 people waiting a year for nonessential operations. thats now gone up to 12,008. so weve got three hospitals on the brink, as we would say. nick mitchell at nationalworld, what are you concentrating on? our top story at the moment is actually about the vagrancy act which is a very old piece of legislation, but which has been found that thousands of people are still being prosecuted under this ...

To some, social media might be seen as a potential rival, a problem for some of the work that you are doing. but you dont see it that way. no, the first thing is to differentiate. when we talk about silicon valley, differentiate between search engines and social media platforms. we talk about google i think lots of people talk about the argument, google and facebook is kind of eating our lunch in terms of advertising. that argument is a decade old now. i think it is an industry we need to pick o...

We had an under—informed public in wales so we decided to set up this news website in order to bring perhaps welsh politics to them in a more accessible way. interesting, nick mentioned the pandemic. the pandemic from the point of view of what youre doing, im guessing is that because the uk as a whole got much more of a sense of the devolved powers of certainly scotland and northern ireland and wales because each country was looking after its own health care up to a point. and we saw, for exam...

Things we can do is _ decentralise that journalism. weve heard leveling up i already being mentioned. we need to level up the journalism in different parts of the uk as welll so that it tells the stories - and represents the needs of people in different parts of the uk. i think that is what we do _ and what some of the other services discussed here today do as well. nick mitchell, you were nodding at that. the regional element of holding power to account, its obviously an important factor for yo...