Newspaper closures risk ‘creating a print media wasteland' while Naspers’s online ventures 'reap the short-term benefits’.
Caxton and CTP Publishers has again expressed concern over the closure of several Media24 news titles, saying alternatives have been suggested to the latter but ignored.
Jenkins has criticised this perspective, pointing out its disregard for the immediate and severe impact on the current news ecosystem, democracy, and access to information. “As successful publishers of newspapers, Caxton and its partner Capital Newspapers have sought to suggest various alternatives to Media24 to maintain at least some of the newspapers to retain diverse voices in the media,” he says.
He says The Witness urges stakeholders to consider the impact of the wholesale migration to digital news on national and regional journalism’s role in democracy.
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