Small Newspaper Story: How Mylapore Times is tiding over challenges from national dailies and the digital tsunami
By Staff Writer in Media News on Friday, 26th April 2024 at 7:37pmEven in print, barring a few major national players, most outlets struggle to stay afloat as is evident in the shrinking weight of the newspapers delivered at your doorstep on most days. Yet, there are those ‘small’ newspapers that continue to buck the global trend with their robust content and local connect.
Vincent D’Souza, owner-editor of the Mylapore Times, a weekly English newspaper focusing on just a four-square-kilometre area in south-central Chennai, is one of those rare journalists who stuck to hyper-local journalism for over three decades now despite beginning his career at larger media outlets with national outreach.
He believes that small newspapers – Vincent insists on not labelling his product as a community newspaper because he isn’t interested in associating i...
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