17 Apr 2022

Print and paper problems for publishers

From Mediawatch, 9:11 am on 17 April 2022

‘Not worth the paper it’s printed on' is a common jibe at sub-standard journalism - but paper’s worth a lot these days and one of our biggest printing plants has closed citing shortages offshore. How did that happen in a country full of trees? And where does it leave local publications that struggled through the Covid crisis?

The debut issue of Woman magazine - one of several filling big gaps on local newsstands created by the economic chaos of Covid 19 and the closure of Bauer Media.

The debut issue of Woman magazine - one of several filling big gaps on local newsstands created by the economic chaos of Covid 19 and the closure of Bauer Media. Photo: photo / Colin Peacock