Louisa Compton

By Louisa Compton, Channel 4 Head of News and Current Affairs and Specialist Factual and Sport. The job of journalists is to tell the stories that people need to know. Often, that means telling stories that other people, the people who are subjects of our investigations, would rather were not heard. Few situations in the world today have illustrated those two truisms more clearly than the October 7 massacres in Israel and the 21 months of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza that followed.

News and current affairs is an important part of BBC Radio 1's Service Licence (issued by the BBC Trust). The latest addition to Radio 1's news output - the new Newsbeat app reflects this. Here, Louisa Compton, Editor of Radio 1's Newsbeat introduces the new app. This week we launch the new Newsbeat app for android mobiles and iphones. It's a key part of our drive to make Newsbeat more social and mobile focused.

Today we have launched the new Newsbeat responsive site - a brand new site that cleverly adapts to the screens and devices you're using. It's the first step in our drive to make Newsbeat far more social and mobile focused. We know you are viewing a great chunk of news online, and over the last year we've made huge strides in improving our digital offering. Ten million people listen to us each week on Radio 1/1Xtra and we now reach around nine million people a week online.