UK Government urges public to ‘buy a newspaper’

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Britain&&num;8217&semi;s Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has called on Britons to buy a newspaper in a bid to help local&comma; regional and national publications make it through the Covid-19 shutdown&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking at the Downing Street briefing&comma; Mr Jenrick said much of the front-line effort in the fight against coronavirus &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>is being co-ordinated in our own communities”<&sol;i>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said&colon; <i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;A free country needs a free press and the national&comma; the regional and the local newspapers of our country are under significant financial pressure&period;”<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Jenrick added&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>I would like to echo the words of the Culture Secretary &lpar;Oliver Dowden&rpar; recently in encouraging everyone who can to buy a newspaper&period;”<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Housing Secretary’s defence of the press stands in contrast to Downing Street’s criticism of the media for its coverage of the coronavirus crisis&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Last month&comma; a Number 10 spokesman claimed &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>public confidence in the media has collapsed during this emergency”&period;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Across the industry&comma; many titles have been forced to furlough staff and reduce pay due to advertising cuts as businesses retrench in a bid to survive the lockdown&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In London&comma; the Evening Standard – which is distributed for free across the transport network – was forced to make significant efforts to cut staff costs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Its sister websites the Independent and Indy100 were also affected&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Elsewhere in London&comma; daily financial paper City AM has suspended its print operation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Despite its apparent hostility to some quarters of the media&comma; last month the British Government revealed it had set up a three-month advertising partnership across the newspaper industry to push its &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>stay at home”<&sol;i> message&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The deal was set up in partnership with Newsworks&comma; a marketing body for national newspapers&comma; which hoped to help provide a lifeline to struggling outlets&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It is understood the newspaper industry originally asked for £45 million for the campaign but the final total was not disclosed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e5b4be8b">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e5b4be8b'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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