Word about is that there are serous moves afoot to set up in competition to Fairfax‘s Cambridge Edition. There is some agreement around town that, in recent months, ‘The Edition’ has lost it. Too much soft news, much of it provided, and not enough of the real stuff a community needs to know about itself. And then there are those tabloid headlines. BTW yesterday’s Radio New Zealand National MediaWatch looked at moves within Fairfax [Podcast 26’08”] which will impact print news gathering across the board let alone in small markets, such as ours, which they currently dominate.
Michael Jeans 