On the back of a year in which the impact of lockdown had led to large scale job losses, the big question facing the UK economy at the start of 2021 was whether it could swiftly bounce back from Covid-19.
While some industries undoubtedly continued to struggle, the answer as far as the regional press was concerned turned out to be a resounding yes.
For the first time in more than a decade, the number of new jobs being created and new titles being launched far outweighed the number of jobs being lost and titles closing.
Nor, would it seem, was this just a case of bringing jobs lost at the start of the pandemic back on stream. Publishers such as Reach claimed that they now employed more people than was the case pre-Covid, and the figures seemed to back that up.
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