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It's Farewell - and Hello
Sep 26, 2020
This is the final edition of The Southern Cross as a weekly newspaper, bringing to a close a run of more than 5 200 consecutive weeks of publication of the national Catholic newspaper.
The first edition of The Southern Cross was published on October 16, 1920, with Fr James Kelly as its editor. Since then it has never missed a week’s publication.
The Southern Cross will live on as a monthly magazine, with the first issue, dated October, already printed and in distribution.
“The end of the newspaper was inevitable,” said Rosanne Shields, chair of the board of directors of The Southern Cross .
“In discussions with our editor, Günther Simmermacher, we had already decided last year to investigate the possibility of transitioning from a newspaper to a magazine, with a view of possibly relaunching in 2021, after concluding our centenary,” Ms Shields said.
“The coronavirus pandemic and the national lockdown forced us to change plans,” she noted.
“When the churches closed in lockdown, we lost our main points of sales. And because the Post Office was in effect inoperative and couldn’t be used for distribution, there was no point in printing the newspaper.”
The last printed newspaper was that of March 27. Since then, The Southern Cross has appeared weekly in digital format, with subscribers receiving the latest editions on Wednesdays. These then have been made available for free on Sundays.
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