News giant Reach Plc is creating 46 jobs across the country after revealing it will launch a further seven news website under its 'Live' branding.
Reach - which owns the Daily Mirror, BusinessLive and a host of regional papers - has revealed it will launch the news sites next year.
The websites will allow the company to expand into new areas. These are Sunderland, County Durham, Sheffield, North Yorkshire, Bradford, Newport and Bolton.
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The move will add to the existing site and will allow the business to cover the whole of the Yorkshire region.
Reach added that the 46 jobs being created would be permanent positions.
Jim Mullen, chief executive officer of Reach plc, said: “We have already seen rapid growth across the entire Live network this year, including in cases where we’ve established completely new brands and grown new audiences. Our digital regional proposition presents a major opportunity to expand our readership even further with the Live brand.
"Now is the time to expand this proven model on an even bigger scale and bring our journalism to even more communities across the country.”
The majority of Reach's digital regional brands come under the "Live" banner.
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Titles include , which has grown to 11 million monthly page views, despite the company having no previous footing in the region. Other new launches followed, including which in October 2019 saw 828% year on year growth and , which launched in December 2018 and already receives over 10 million page views a month
This is the first time Reach has made a major investment towards having multiple launches.
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Lloyd Embley, group editor-in-chief of Reach plc, added: “We know that readers today trust our regional journalism more than ever. We are also confident that we know better than the rest how to grow an engaged online audience - so it is really exciting to be able to put our money where our mouth is and make this kind of investment. What better way could there be to demonstrate our confidence in the future of local news?”
As part of the move the company will also create new jobs in some of its existing sites, such as EdinburghLive and GlasgowLive.
Neil Hodgkinson - previously editor-in-chief of North East, Humber and Lincolnshire - has now been named editor-in-chief of Yorkshire and Humber, while Helen Dalby has been promoted to editor-in-chief for the North East. She is the first regional editor-in-chief at Reach to rise through the ranks as a digital journalist.