The Mudgee Guardian is going back to the good old days, with the return of a Tuesday-Friday publishing schedule.
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Today’s Weekly is the last that will go to press, making Logan Anderson the final smiling face to grace the publication’s front page, almost exactly 12 years after the first front page featured a cartoon of Percy Thompson facing off against Denis Yeo in a boxing match symbolising the 2004 local election.
The Weekly, founded by Elwyn Lang, was purchased by then-owners of the Guardian Rural Press, and at the start of 2006 the two mastheads began publishing on a Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule, last seen in the 1960s and 1970s.
Ten years on, the Guardian will return to publishing on Tuesdays and Fridays, with the Tuesday Guardian incorporating the Weekly’s popular Gulgong pages and correspondent Brent Barlow’s Rylstone-Kandos pages.
The Tuesday paper will also include the seven-day TV guide and weekend sport reports.
The change is part of a company-wide restructure of Fairfax Media, which will ensure the Mudgee Guardian remains a vibrant and enduring local newspaper in an increasingly digital world.
The Mudgee Guardian journalists will still be out and about reporting the news, sport and community information that matters to the region, and the team of sales representatives will still be helping local businesses reach their customers.
As reader Jenny Bolton wrote in a letter to the editor this year, “I have lived in various parts of NSW and the ACT and have never experienced such quality in other regional newspapers.
“Robyn Murray and her dedicated team are to be congratulated on not only keeping us informed about every activity and event that are occurring in the mid-western region; but also getting involved in issues that may be controversial but are very close to peoples hearts.”
The Guardian office will also be a centre for online news across the central west, with local sub-editor Ben Palmer being promoted to group digital journalist for the western area.
