Three news sources for Mackay
THE closure of Mackay’s daily printed newspaper, the Mackay Daily Mercury was a disappointment for many in the region.
Even though the news content is available online, some saw this as an opportunity to introduce a new print product for local news in Mackay.
While others saw a gap in the coverage left by the disappearing paper and created a digital product or Facebook page to compensate.
So, for this month’s business profile, we’re taking a look at three news and information sources servicing Mackay.
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1. Mackay Local News
Mackay’s new weekly newspaper, The Mackay Local News, published for the first time on Friday, February 12.
The paper will be sold in over 120 local businesses around Mackay up to Proserpine, out around Moranbah, Nebo, Clermont and down to Sarina and surrounds covering local news in Mackay, Mirani, Sarina, Andergrove, Blacks Beach, Clermont, Dysart, Eimeo, Marian, Moranbah and Walkerston.
This news will also be available online, free.
Mackay Local News advertising sales staff member Brooke Cousins said in a post on the Mackay Noticeboard, “We’ll be able to access stories and updates online without having to pay and subscribe.
“The community has expressed its loss in the way it can access it’s local news and community events. We were missing an important way to feel connected to this beautiful town.
“I work here with the locally employed team in our office on Victoria Street. We’re very excited, motivated and ready to publish local, informative, community focused news, views, briefs and happenings.”
See the Mackay Local News website here.
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2. CORE Life Magazine
After printing 15,000 glossy magazines every two months for almost 10 years, CORE Life Magazine launched a digital product in May 2020.
In an easy to read digital format – for desktop, laptop, smartphone or tablet – this exciting platform opened up a whole new world for CORE Life readers, reaching a vast online audience.
For nearly a decade, CORE Life Magazine has been a source of printed entertainment for the thousands of people living in the Mackay, Whitsunday, Bowen Basin and Central Highlands districts.
Fondly known as the local business, networking and lifestyle publication, Core Life Magazine is distributed to over 1000 locations and has 20 local distribution stands.
At Baileux, we have a CORE Life Magazine distribution stand in our office at 4/52 Gordon Street, Mackay.
See the CORE Life website here.
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3. Mackay & Surrounding Area Funeral Notices
After the Mackay Daily Mercury stopped printing, a couple of locals started the Mackay & Surrounding Area Funeral Notices Facebook page.
In a statement on Facebook, they said they started the page to become a place for “residents of Mackay to be able to advise the community of what’s matters most to them in relation to a loved, family members passing, the birth of a child, a 21st, 18th, special birthday or just a tribute to another on their anniversary milestone.”
After doing some research into how deaths and births are being advertised in Mackay since the Daily Mercury is no longer in print, they found to see notices residents have to go to each funeral business page.
So they launched this Facebook page as one place for residents to share these notices with the wider community.
“I truly hope this site becomes what we imagined it would become. I know this is a new type of experience for us all. For some of us a very difficult one as we don’t know what to write or say. Please, contact [us] if you have something you would like to post. We can work it out together, it’s new to us also.”
See the Mackay & Surrounding Area Funeral Notices Facebook page here.
