ABC head and former Fairfax newspaper executive Mark Scott has painted a bleak picture of the future of newspapers, predicting Melbourne will become a one-newspaper city amid mergers, closures and cost-cutting.Speaking to an audience of media studies students at La Trobe University last night, Mr Scott said no Australian newspapers had been prepared to make the dramatic changes to their publications necessary to secure their survival in the face of competition from the internet and other media.
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