Regional Australia laments loss of print as News Corp titles go digital
ABCIt was the breaking news many readers in streets, shops, and newsagencies across regional Australia today did not want delivered — the loss of the print versions of their favourite local newspapers. A blow for communities News Corp said there would "regretfully" be job losses associated with the announcement, but the exact number remained unclear. "It's very much oriented towards serving the Top End market, and Alice Springs is going to find itself yet again relegated somewhat down the pecking order of priorities of the Northern Territory," Mr Nelson said. Cuts could 'compromise democracy' A former editor of the Northern Star in Lismore, northern NSW, and the Gold Coast Bulletin said he feared the history of regional and rural towns would be lost, alongside many jobs and News Corp titles. "The accountability for local government, for even state government, has often been the regional journalism that has brought that to the fore, and that's going to disappear completely," he said.
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