Today PortMac.News finally received the Email we've been expecting for weeks - Confirmation that one of our local newspapers is going back into production. 

Even though we're not exactly sure when the first edition of the printed paper will actually hit the streets, the publishers say that they will be three print editions of 'The Port Macquarie News' published each week.

The futures of the 'Port Express' & the 'Wauchope Gazette' are unknown.

Be Coronaviurus Safe - Sanitise your newspaper before consumption !

Experts say Coronavirus can survive on paper products for a day or more & much longer on plastic ! So Don't forget to sanitise that newspaper and its plastic packaging BEFORE you touch it - Better to be safe than sorry !

So, who likes paying for advertising ?

If you like paying for advertising material you're in luck !! Whenever the paper reappears, if it isn't dumped on your doorstep in a leaking, dirty, wet, non-covid friendly plastic bag, you're going to have to pay for it.

Sydney based 'Australia Community Newsapers', owners of the Port papers, already want you to pay for the same online content you can get for free at PortMac.News, so you can be sure the newsagent price for the printed paper will be 'Opportunistic'.

Call me old fashioned, but I've always felt that if 80% of a newspaper's content is advertising material, then they should be paying me to read it, not the other way around ?

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Video | Gems Kill - Experts say Coronavirus can survive on paper products for a day or more & much longer on plastic !

Don't forget to sanitise that newspaper and its packaging BEFORE you touch it - you just can't be sure where it's been.