gareth ward comments

Print’s future deserves a proper past

The news that Reach plans to close newspaper plants in Scotland and Watford is no surprise: falling circulations across the board make consolidation into fewer sites inevitable. It does mean that the Newsprinters site at Broxbourne will now be printing every Fleet Street paper, including fierce rivals the Daily Mirror and Sun, Daily Telegraph and Guardian only a generation after

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