By Nico Johnson, editor of the Purbeck Gazette

Delivering the 2011 Guardian Lecture, former regional editor Neil Fowler called for local titles to be returned to local ownership, suggesting the likes of Newsquest and Trinity Mirror be allowed to have an “orderly default on their debts”.

Word in the city is that print is dead, or at least in its final throes, but is this more a case of a lack of funds to gold-plate the offices of management?