Glasgow newspaper closes because of insufficient advertising
More evidence of the changing face of media has emerged with news that a 40,000 circulation newspaper that served Glasgow for the last 14 years has closed.
The Local Glasgow News, which served both the South Side and West End, was forced to close because it was failing to generate sufficient advertising revenue, according to owner Grace Franklin.
The paper was staff mostly by freelancers, and it is freelance career Franklin will be resuming now. However, her associate, Jo-Anne Kessler, now plans to launch a new advertising-led publication, News in the City.
Franklin told website allmediascotland: "If I had been a hard-nosed business person, I would have wrapped it up a long time ago. Towards the end, it was the love of it, rather than money, that kept it going."