Australia’s only children’s newspaper Crinkling News set to close
Crinkling News, Australia’s only national newspaper for children, has announced it is set to close.
The newspaper’s founders, Saffron Howden and Remi Bianchi, told their readers in a statement issued on Tuesday night “we are very sorry to say we cannot keep publishing the newspaper with the resources we have,” adding “it will need a much bigger business, government or philanthropy to take all the amazing things we have done together and keep the momentum going.”
Why can’t it continue online?
Why the insistence on that most expensive of business models, print?
Sad but not unexpected news.
I feel for Saffrron and Remi, in my humble opinion their money would have been better spent on expanding their sales team rather than on an advisor.
@ Caz – The print is cheap – it’s the content that’s expensive. You can throw your ‘expensive print vs cheap digital’ theories in the bin.
Need to put the crowdfunding into context. It’s nice to declare they raised $213K but after fees and other provisions to secure via the CF platform they were left with around the $140k mark. It’s a mammoth effort to run a fledgling publication, print or digital, and there wouldn’t be too many people willing to stick their backsides over the edge like these two. The fact they lasted 8 months on fumes is a credit to their dedication to try and make it work.
We have so many tech-rich individuals in this country now, there’s no reason why a group of them couldn’t keep this vision alive as a personal cause for the future of Australian Kids who are their companies futures.
“That money allowed us to … do the first research into how kids and teens get their news across the nation, and more”.
Let me guess, the answer was VIA THE INTERNET!?!
The whole point of Crinkling was to get schoolkids into reading and learning about the media and the world with something tangible in their hands.
What a waste of money on everything … makes me wonder what type of advice they received.