Outback Radio 2WEB saves outback, regional newspaper for Bourke and its surrounding community
In 2018 after 131 years in operation, Bourke’s local newspaper, The Western Herald, was threatened with closure due to declining advertising revenue. Closure would have meant the end of local print media in Bourke, and the end of a newspaper that had been around the outback since 1887. Ian Cole is chairman of the WREB …