Australia's Oldest Weekly News Magazine Closes
Another week, another old media obituary. Yesterday, Australia’s oldest weekly news magazine, The Bulletin, announced that it was closing. In a statement, ACP Magazines, publisher of The Bulletin, noted that the internet has affected circulation in weekly news magazines around the world. From The Age:
”The magazine, whose closure was announced yesterday by its publisher, ACP Magazines, had changed markedly in the course of its long history. The brash, defiant weekly that first appeared in Sydney in 1880 and quickly became a genuinely national publication — it was one of very few carrying reports from all the Australian colonies — was exuberantly egalitarian, militantly secular and rabidly nationalist.
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