News Corp’s ‘world-class’ changes all but kill off regional titles

Thursday April 29, 2021

Several News Corp-owned regional newspapers have had their identities subsumed by the company’s metropolitan publication, The Courier-Mail, in a further blow to media diversity in Queensland.

Readers of at least 16 regional papers stretching from Charleville to the Whitsundays will now need to pay for a digital subscription to The Courier-Mail to continue accessing news produced by the mastheads.

They include the 154-year-old Gympie Times, whose masthead now only has a small presence below the dominant Courier-Mail title.

Regular readers were confronted this…

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