What a local newspaper means to a regional city like Newcastle
- Written by Paul Scott, Lecturer, School of Creative Industries, Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
The Newcastle Herald has won eight Walkley awards for journalistic excellence over the past seven years. This includes a Gold Walkley for the groundbreaking reportage that led to Australia’s royal commission into institutional responses to child sex abuse. It has told stories of national and international importance.
But this local newspaper,...
