Mumbai Mirror will now be launched as a weekly while continuing to publish online.
This is a huge blow to the journalists and staff of the
Mumbai and
Pune Mirror, many of whom will now be out of work. But the impact will be felt far beyond
Mirror’s offices too.
The Mirror was Mumbai’s most widely-read tabloid, well regarded for its focus on civic issues that directly affected the lives of readers in the city of 16 million. The closure of its print edition comes just over a year after two other major city papers shut their operations:
The Afternoon Despatch & Courier, which shut shop entirely in July 2019, and