Gorgie Gazette Replacement
Liam McGowan
Discussions have been set in motion to replace the Gorgie Dalry Gazette, which has been out of print since council subsidies were withdrawn in 2008. The proposals to revive the publication were made at a Gorgie Dalry Community Council meeting on Monday October 3rd, with MSP Marco Biagi pledging his support to the idea.
The replacement newspaper will be warmly welcomed by the people of Gorgie and Dalry, who relied on the Gazette for a wide range of local news. Coverage ranged from events at the local farm to the activities of their local councillors, MSPs and MPs.
‘The newspaper didn’t go out of print due to declining readership’, said Edinburgh Councillor Conor Snowden, a former adminstrator of the Edinburgh Community Newspaper Trust which was the council body that subsidised the Gazette until 2008. ‘The paper perished because it wasn’t operating on a sustainable business model. They relied, perhaps, too heavily on subsidies to sustain what was quite an expensive operation’, he added.
Other local newspapers to face closure include the West Edinburgh Times and the North Edinburgh News, which like the Gazette had relied on subsidies for their survival since their inception in the 1980s. However, no discussions have yet taken place on the potential revival of those publications. It is thought that the proposition to revive the Gazette will be welcomed in a community that enjoyed a close affinity to the paper during its 25 years in print.
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As an employee of Gorgie City Farm, I’d love to see a Gorgie/Dalry Gazette!