The mayor of the rural Queensland city of Kingaroy thought one of the area's local newspapers, the South Burnett Times, had become too sensational and was failing to "report the news that the community needed to know about". So he persuaded Kingaroy shire council to pay for two part-time journalists to work for the rival title, the Kingaroy Mail, to cover "proper" news. Both papers are owned by the same company, APN, a division of Tony O'Reilly's media empire. (Via The Australian)
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