I started in advertising working on regional and community newspaper retail media plans and it feels like I am standing on the sideline watching a slow and torturous death. Australia's first newspaper was the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, that began in 1803. Here we are, over 200 years later, and it is an enormously sad day for the Australian newspaper industry as News Corp announces the closure of over 100 print papers, with 14 titles to disappear completely