PHOTO: Regional newspaper publishers visited one of the last remaining print sites in Sydney recently. PHOTO: Coonamble Times
A number of local newspapers in the Western Plains district have received a much needed injection of funds from the government, but many say it still does little to offset the growing pressures on regional newspapers.
A share of $15 million will be distributed to a total of 208 applicants across Australia from the federal government’s Regional and Local Newspaper Publishers Program.
In New South Wales a total of 69 grants were awarded across four streams – regional, independent suburban, First Nations and multicultural print publishers…