38 redundancies as Mount Gambier’s local newspaper, The Border Watch, closes after 159 years
After 159 years in publishing, Mount Gambier’s The Border Watch Newsgroup is closing its doors, seeing 38 staff retrenched and three mastheads closed.
The Border Watch, South Eastern Times, which covers Millicent and The Pennant in Penola will all close as of this Friday, with the company’s board saying everything had been done to save the titles.
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The Sunraysia Daily had a small hibernation but is definitely back printing three days each week.
On behalf of myself personally, and on behalf of our Treasuring-ATSI Suicide Prevention Network, I wish to thank The Border Watch for covering our network stories over many years and thank those wonderful journalist, May you prosper in life. So, thank you all those journalist that wanted to cover my lourney and Treasuring Life-ATSI Suicide Prevention Network. Like many, will miss A Regional Print Media-Thank you for those over that I have engaged with to put A Story Out To Our Region.