Former AAP and News Corp execs launch regional media business, NewsFarm

March 18, 2021 11:10

A consortium of media executives – including former AAP boss Tony Gillies, founding partner of The Royals Nick Cummins and distinguished editor Alan Oakley – have founded NewsFarm, a regional journalism company looking to establish mastheads in more than 100 news deserts, create more than 450 media jobs, and publish more than 5,000 local news stories each week.

NewsFarm’s website says it wants to “create a quality and sustainable media sector for regional Australia within three years”, in an attempt to remedy the shuttering of 194 local newsrooms since early 2019.

It says it will facilitate local reporting which provides “vital community information, a platform for debate, scrutiny of government and the courts and celebrat[es] achievement by local people”.

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Brittney Rigby

Brittney Rigby was Mumbrella's deputy managing editor - news and analysis. She left Mumbrella in April 2021.