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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Aston Brown

‘We don’t know what’s going on any more’: how Australia lost its rural newspapers

Archival image of the Warwick Daily News from 1974.
The Warwick Daily News is one of hundreds of rural papers that was moved online by News Corp in 2020. Photograph: Aston Brown/The Guardian

James Clark remained staunchly “duty-bound” to keeping the press alive, even as local newspapers shuttered around him. His was the last newspaper for 500km in outback Queensland.

But despite that devotion, the struggle to keep local journalism alive became untenable.

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