How special to have Aslan Shand, daughter of beloved Echo co-founder Nicholas, take over the reins as editor of our unique local paper – 40 years old and still going strong.
It is still fiercely independent in an age of media increasingly owned by Murdoch and other corporations who are in it for the money and the power, and whose respect for truth is scanty at best.
Aslan takes over from Hans Lovejoy, scion of the other esteemed Echo co-founder David.
Hans remains in the family business looking after the Echo online.
Aslan’s aim to ‘keep the community’s voice, through The Echo, alive and strong’ is reassuring, especially while seemingly everything around us is changing rapidly, the Echo’s commitment to the Byron shire community remains. Thanks Aslan, and thanks Echo.
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. 
