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Since News­day’s an­nounce­ment that it has com­menced le­gal pro­ceed­ings to close, much has been writ­ten here at home and around the re­gion about this de­ci­sion. The clo­sure of any news­pa­per any­where in the world res­onates with jour­nal­ists every­where as they un­der­stand the chal­lenges of this unique in­dus­try that of­ten sits on the edge of chal­leng­ing fi­nan­cial de­ci­sion-mak­ing. In the midst of the noise that has en­cir­cled this an­nounce­ment, the sober re­al­i­ty is that sus­tain­ing a tra­di­tion­al me­dia house in this era is a tough bal­anc­ing act.

“The in­dus­try is evolv­ing. The in­for­ma­tion age has been the in­dus­tri­al rev­o­lu­tion of me­dia. Re­mem­ber, there was an in­dus­tri­al rev­o­lu­tion when we trans­formed from agrar­i­an so­ci­eties in­to in­dus­tri­al com­plex­es? That hap­pened,” said re­tired jour­nal­ist Suzanne Shep­pard.

Her time in jour­nal­ism dates back to type­writ­ers to now hav­ing news straight to her mo­bile de­vice. Shep­pard has worked in elec­tron­ic and print me­dia for 40 years.