New papers launch, one more returns to print

Aug 17, 2020 at 09:43 pm by Staff


Southeast Queensland has two new print newspapers following News Corp Australia's closure of more than 100 of its former APN print editions, while an established favourite is back in print.

In Maryborough, Queensland, the fortnightly Maryborough Sun has launched with a free-delivery circulation of more than 12,000 copies.

Weekly online and print newspaper Gympie Today launched on July 31 in the historic gold-mining city which had been served by News Corp Australia's daily Gympie Times, now a digital-only masthead. Andrew Guiver has been named general manager, with senior journalist Rose Astley responsible for content.

In the Noosa hinterland, the not-for-profit Cooroy Rag resumed print publication this week. It will be published on a fortnightly basis after a "forced suspension" because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

New "professional journalistic input" is promised with a news website to come. It is advertising for a sales representative, journalist/digital producer, a Pagemaker and Photoshop-capable person for newspaper production and a CPA-qualified accounts manager.

Currently a 32-page tabloid, the paper began life in 1961 as six-to-eight pages of stapled foolscap paper.

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