A newspaper has launched a daily audio new briefing as part of a mission to find new ways to interact with and serve its local communities.

DC Thomson news brand The Courier has launched the podcast which was created in-house by the company’s audio visual team working alongside the title’s journalists.

The Courier Daily gives listeners an insiders’ account of Dundee, Fife, Perth and Angus’s most important local stories. 

It will be hosted by Courier journalists Clare Johnston, picture, Maria Gran and Kate Brown and each five-minute briefing looks at issues affecting the local area such as crime and court stories, investigations or the opening of a new restaurant. 

New episodes will be available every weekday and are available free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and most other podcast services.  

The daily briefing is the latest in a line of new developments as The Courier bids to improve the ways it serves its local communities. 

Recently, the news brand launched its first video documentary. It also crowdsourced questions for candidates ahead of the 2022 local elections.

Mark Asquith, Head of Audio Visual at DC Thomson, said: “Audio journalism has undergone a revolution over the past few years and The Courier Daily puts us at the forefront of this changing world. 

“On-demand audio such as podcasts are now an essential part of any newsroom’s story telling arsenal. 

“The Courier Daily news briefing, produced by the Audio Visual team at DC Thomson, offers us another way to become a fantastic source of reliable news for our local communities.

“Every weekday we’ll be sharing a mix of news and feature stories from across our newsrooms to inform, educate and hopefully entertain.”