The union-run newspaper's shutdown is another blow to the Far West New South Wales town of Broken Hill, which lost its nightly commercial news bulletin a year ago.
After more than 125 years, Broken Hill's last remaining newspaper The Barrier Truth published its final edition on Wednesday.
Barrier Industrial Council president and Barrier Truth board chair Roslyn Ferry confirmed to ABC Broken Hill that the Barrier Truth had shut its doors.The last edition of the paper was printed on Wednesday.It comes after social media giant Meta disbanded its News tab on its platform, effectively limiting the amount of news content that could be shared.For former employee Emily McInerney, who started at the Truth as an 18-year-old cadet fresh out of high school in 2010, it was a very sad day.
A self-professed mining man with no background in media, he refused to let the then-daily newspaper close."I have contacts in industry, so I talked to the mining leaders in Australia and said this town needed a newspaper at that time," Mr Walker said."I'd never been in the newspaper industry before, but I obviously understand business, so it was a matter of applying those skills and knowledge.
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