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Is the closure of the Fairfax Monday to Friday newspapers inevitable?

Check out this paragraph from Stephen Bartholomeusz’s piece about the latest restructure at newspaper publisher Fairfax:

The next big decision will come when the printing of the metros moves to the regional presses and the Chullora and Tullamarine plants are shut down and sold. At that point Hywood will have to confront the decision as to whether to continue printing the loss-making Monday-to-Friday papers or to shut them down and move to a digital-only presence outside the weekends. It appears a forgone, albeit very painful, conclusion.

The current daily sales of the Fairfax dailies is lower than US titles that have either gone 100% digital or stopped printing on some days.

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  1. salam

    It will be a closure for good ( hard copies and digital) when publishing industries here the wrong people not journalists

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