Michael Waite is a good talker. Friendly, knowledgable and enthusiastic, he’s the kind of guy who can turn a yes-or-no question into an entertaining, minutes-long response with more twists and turns than his remarkable journey to be that rarest of beasts – a 21st-century founder of a printed newspaper.
Which is why it says so much that one of the few times he is lost for words is when asked how it feels to have not only launched that paper in rural South Australia at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic but to still be standing almost three years and more than 100 editions later.
