Editor's View from the Desk #1: 'Reaching out' as we enter a new stage in the coronavirus crisis

Doing all we can to support readers

Katrina Lloyd
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It is the starting phrase of an email that usually strikes terror into the heart of any right thinking person, but 'reaching out' digitally to our readers seems to be the right thing to do in today's bewildering times.

So welcome to our new regular blog called 'View from the Desk' which will offer insights from myself, the other editors at PA's parent company Incisive Media and external guest editors on the key issues for ourselves and our markets as we all try to navigate what could be some very tough times ahead. I appreciate the 'desk' could become the 'kitchen table' sooner rather than later, but the sentiment remains the same.      I toyed with the idea of an Editor's diary - as who doesn't write a blog these days - but this is 2020 after all, and at least it relieves the pressure of trying to ...

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