Many News Corp print mastheads were challenged and the double impact of the coronavirus lockdown plus tech platforms such as Google and Facebook not remunerating local publishers for content made the mastheads unsustainable, Miller said.
The changes affect 112 News Corp publications, with 36 mastheads, or newspaper titles, to disappear. Their news would be published in regional sections of other mastheads, he said. Another 76 will survive online without printed editions, the company said. “Going digital-only is just another step in the slow slide to extinction,” O’Loughlin said.
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