The Nine press has put in a story about ACM today (Thursday) - Antony Catalano and Alex Waislitz’s newspaper arm to sell, shut down titles - although it doesn’t tell too much more than what has already been told in the ABC and Mediaweek articles above, so it’s a tad slow.
It did say the WA newspapers were going to go digital-only rather than being closed outright, though you’d imagine they’d still be gutted to a minimum.
It did report two Queensland newspapers have also had their final issue this week: the Jimboomba Times and the Redland City Bulletin, with the newsrooms having closed on Monday and the final issues having gone out Wednesday. Both of these are on the edge of Brisbane (Jimboomba is part of Logan City) and are pretty much suffering the same fate as the outer Sydney papers several months ago.
Most of the article the Nine press had was about ACM pushing those remaining to take annual leave over Easter (sounds like two days; they were talking about employees wanting a six-day break) and one over Anzac Day… I guess if annual leave provisions are making news, you must wonder.
If suburban papers still existed it would be one of those weeks after Easter where they combined papers with limited news (like the South-West Shopper we used to get that combined the Mac/Camden Advertiser and the Champion papers in Sydney over Christmas, when Fairfax still owned them). Not sure they get those economies of scale with regional papers…