Hi Everyone,
Welcome to a brand-new edition!
We now officially produce five different publications from our little publishing house here in Cannonvale – for those of you that don’t know, these are Core Life Magazine, Tripping Magazine, Mackay Life Newspaper, Burdekin Life Newspaper and Whitsunday Life Newspaper.
Four of these are printed in a flip-book format where readers receive two publications in the same ‘book’, and all of them are generated, produced, and of course delivered locally.
Not bad for a publishing group that had specialised in lifestyle magazines before venturing into weekly printed news three years ago!
Last week, 10 of us ventured up to the Burdekin to launch the first issue of Burdekin Life Newspaper and we were amazed by the warm welcome we received.
(For those of you who read this column every week, my speech went really well thank you, and I am so glad I pushed myself into facing my fear!)
The launch of a new weekly newspaper was very exciting for residents of the Burdekin, who had been without a community newspaper for over a year.
While we were there, we saw first-hand how much it was missed – papers were flying off stands, we were getting calls to re-stock and so many people were walking around with a copy tucked under their arms.
Sometimes, you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone!
Local businesses had nowhere to share their achievements, events slipped by without coverage, proud parents couldn’t smile at their child’s appearance in print and worst of all, without the funeral notices, no-one knew who had passed away that week!
While social media undoubtedly connects, it seems the printed community paper is well and truly alive in the regions and it is great to see our publications equally well received across the Burdekin, Mackay and right here in the Whitsundays.
Thank you to all our readers and thank you to our incredible team who deliver such exceptional work week after week.
Rach
Quote of the Week: “I hope to arrive at my death, late, in love and a little drunk” (Atticus)
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