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A local newspaper, which is the second-longest running in the Visayas region, has stopped producing print edition of its newspaper as it moves to digital-only format.
Visayan Daily Star has ended its print run effective June 6 but will continue operating in digital form through website articles and FB page rebranded as “Daily News Central.”
Carlos Antonio Leonardia, the acting editor-in-chief, has shared that the end of the print edition came amid internal condlicts over the paper’s direction.
He said some people have asked for the newspaper’s cessation in order to protect the company’s interests. “It is hard to understand how they intend to protect the interest of an institution when they want to stop it from existing, but that is what they want and those running it right now may have been willing to help, but do not want a fight. So, we comply and stop the presses.
Nevertheless, Leonardia has shared via a column that he has done his part to keep the newspaper in operation for as long as he could.
The EIC said, “Now that my time with it is possibly over, I have no regrets. There was no riches, influence or power. Simply the satisfaction of doing my best to preserve a legacy of a great Negrense Tita.”
The Negrenses, to note, are behind the long-running local newspaper which reports local developments. While it had a temporarily halt in print edition during the COVID-19 pandemic, it later resumed operation.
Looking back, Leonardia has said, “If you come to think of it, I don’t know how we were able to pull it off. I had 2 jobs and worked from home for the newspaper. When I had to be somewhere because life goes on, there was no getting away from the responsibilities that always followed me around.”
Sources: Visayan Daily Star, Radar PH
