With the announcement that award-winning journalist David Marr has joined a growing stable of respected journalists, The Guardian is showing its commitment to quality journalism in advance of its launch here later this year. While Fairfax has been shedding many quality people, here’s The Guardian picking some up.
The implication for newsagents and others selling newspapers is that The Guardian represents another news outlet not relying on retailers and distributors to get news in the hands of consumers.
Sadly the Guardian like many media organisations is bleeding buckets of cash. My fear is for commercial media full stop, digital, print, and of late even broadcast.
Im not convinced that my store will be an agency for “news” for too much longer, if it still is today.
Mark is there an Australian print version of The Guardian Weekly – The Guardian Australia and if so is it available and who distributes it? We are getting requests for it. Thanks
Jenny, The Guardian Weekly is thru IPS.
The Guardian Australia from what I have seen is subscription only?
Thanks Gregg, we get the IPS one but its Guardian Australia our sub wants for customers, we could only find it as a subscription but I need to make sure of my facts before I tell him that.