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'The way the world's moving': Regional Australia laments loss of print as titles go digital

'The way the world's moving': Regional Australia laments loss of print as titles go digital

'The way the world's moving': Regional Australia laments loss of print as titles go digital
May 28, 2020 1 min, 36 secs

Two hours west of Brisbane, Warwick locals said news their paper was going digital only was "heartbreaking".

You read that in the local paper and they're the little things that keep you up with what's happening and we're going to really miss that.".

Titles impacted include the state's oldest paper, The Queensland Times, which started in Ipswich in 1859, as well as the Sunshine Coast Daily, Daily Mercury in Mackay, Morning Bulletin in Rockhampton and Bundaberg News Mail.

Sunshine Coast newsagent Leigh Grand said it could mean his shop, Cotton Tree News, would have to close.

"It’s devastating, the Daily (Sunshine Coast Daily) is our second biggest-selling paper.

Major mastheads including the Hobart Mercury, NT News, Cairns Post, Townsville Bulletin, Gold Coast Bulletin, Toowoomba Chronicle and Geelong Advertiser will continue to publish both in print and digitally.

Kate Keogh has been reading the Warwick Daily News for five decades and said the loss of the newspaper would hit the community hard.

Former Warwick Daily News editor Donna Fraser said News Corp's decision wasn't surprising.

She said she doubted the decision would prompt independent publishers to step in and provide local news services.

According to local historian Alex Nelson, the fact that Darwin-based NT News would be the only hard-copy paper for central Australia was not ideal.

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.

"And if we've now got to start relying on Facebook algorithms or twitter algorithms to feed us our news, we're not going to have anywhere near the same filters, anywhere near the same scrutiny of the facts and the figures and the content that we get fed

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