Ponsford on PG's demise

Editor or should I say former editor of the Press Gazette Dominic Ponsford writes in this morning's Media Guardian.

Media doomsayers will see the demise of Press Gazette (if this is the end and no last-minute buyer comes forward) as the death of the canary in the coal mine as far as the news industry is concerned. If journalism, of all professions, can't support its own trade magazine and site - what chance does the rest of the industry have?

The magazines demise he says is

another chapter in an unfolding national tragedy, as long-established news organisations go to the wall. It matters, just as the closures and mass lay-offs at dozens of regional newspapers matter, because of the stories that will no longer get told.