The Kropyvnytskyi oblast newspaper Nova Hazeta is closing down and will go out of print starting 2025, editor Inna Danilchenko reported in a comment to Pavlo Lisnychenko, the regional Institute of Mass Information representative.
The editor said that the closure was caused by their inability to produce quality product with the funding that the media outlet can afford right now. In fact, all the money that the newspaper currently earns goes to cover printing and distribution costs.
“Our task for 2024 as the staff of a printed newspaper was to survive until the end of the year financially and to keep the readers. We are closing our newspaper down with a good print run of 7 thousand copies. That is, we did not kill it. It did not collapse. This is our team’s decision, a balanced and reasonable one,” Inna Danilchenko says.
Starting 2025, the entire Nova Hazeta team will be moving to full-time work at the online media outlet Persha Elektronna Hazeta, which the media professionals have been closely collaborating with before.