"So we bought the newspaper," he said.
Four years on, the paper has survived a tsunami of regional media closures in the wake of the pandemic."I don't want to see it be swallowed up like so many other local papers."According to the Public Interest Journalism Initiative , 60 regional Australia newspapers have folded since the pandemic began.There have also been nine newspaper mergers and 28 instances where regional papers have scaled back services.
PIJI's data analysis, which began on January 1, 2019, shows four papers closed in the year before COVID-19 hit Australian shores. The federal House of Representatives' Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts chair Anne Webster said the pandemic had only accelerated the trend.Committee chair Dr Anne Webster is calling for communities to share how they access news.
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