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Let the Tarrangower Times know your news. The Tarrangower Times is your megaphone, loudspeaker and cheerleader! But we need to know what you’re up to and what you’d like the community to be talking about. The TT shares your news and stories in our beloved printed copy and through digital editions and social media online.…

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Government support for independent press

It was very interesting to read your extensive editorial last week backgrounding the story of the proposed structural repairs to the Beehive Chimney and to realise how easy it is for errors to be made in informing a target public to give them a voice in important local matters. You are to be congratulated for…

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Hard truths, fair words

Hey TT! Congratulations on the editorial in last week’s edition! Hard-hitting yet reasoned, well researched and fair. Keep it up, we need to push back against being marginalised by government agencies taking the easy option of informing people ‘generally in the area’. Well done to the editor Michelle! Keep flying Maldon’s flag! Name and address…

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Library news

World Press Freedom Day Tristan Jacobson, a future librarian. This year the theme for World Press Freedom Day is Reporting in the Brave New World – The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Press Freedom and the Media. The day marks the anniversary of the 1991 Windhoek Declaration, a statement of free press principles. The declaration…

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Democracy, Sausage

Democracy, Sausage. Hook up the gas bottles and fire up the burners; the election has been called and Australia will go to the polls on Saturday 3 May to vote for the next federal government. The Tarrangower Times will continue the silly metaphor and commentate on the process without mincing words, but what is the…

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Australia-first survey targets the role of local papers

The Victorian Country Press Association Political leaders across Victoria are being asked their views on the importance of local newspapers and their ongoing sustainability as part of an Australia-first research project. The Victorian Country Press Association has engaged Deakin University researchers to examine the impact of the state government’s decision in 2022 to introduce the…

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Meta’s moves to abandon fact-checking highlights the role of local papers

Meta’s plans for the removal of fact-checking services on content posted to its platforms and the government’s decision to introduce age limits for access to social media has brought a renewed focus on the importance of regional, rural and local news publishers. Country Press Australia president Andrew Schreyer said publishers have never been tasked with…

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