Michael McDonald, Bairnsdale Victoria
Sad to see Murdoch closing all the paper versions of north coast media he bought up recently.
Despite the fierce competition for the advertising dollar, as an editor and journalist for The Echo – one of the few independent paper voices left, it seems – I enjoyed the camaraderie among reporters and photographers, many of whom are likely to be out of a job.
I remember the longtime Northern Star photographer and gentleman Darcy McFadden helping me to get a good shot on a number of occasions. Why, the Star editor at the time, author Russell Eldridge, once ended up defending my paper at a government-run forum in Byron Bay.
The digital revolution represents the biggest change to public communication since Johannes Gutenberg cranked up a printing press around 1450. It is a threat to investigative journalism as well as an added access to it.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
