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September 14, 2018updated 24 Sep 2018 10:23am

Press Gazette tells Cairncross: Time may have come to compel Google and Facebook to support local news

By Dominic Ponsford

This is Press Gazette’s response to the Cairncross Review’s call for evidence.

The Government review is examining the sustainability of high-quality journalism in the UK, prompted by industry-wide decline in print circulations and ad revenues.

If Google can invest in balloons to provide internet access to remote areas of the world perhaps it can be persuaded to divert some of its huge profits towards subsidising news in areas of the UK which no longer have it.

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