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		</div><p>Britain&#8217;s Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has called on Britons to buy a newspaper in a bid to help local, regional and national publications make it through the Covid-19 shutdown.</p>
<p>Speaking at the Downing Street briefing, Mr Jenrick said much of the front-line effort in the fight against coronavirus “<i>is being co-ordinated in our own communities”</i>.</p>
<p>He said: <i>“A free country needs a free press and the national, the regional and the local newspapers of our country are under significant financial pressure.”</i></p>
<p>Mr Jenrick added: “<i>I would like to echo the words of the Culture Secretary (Oliver Dowden) recently in encouraging everyone who can to buy a newspaper.”</i></p>
<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.</p>
<p>Last month, a Number 10 spokesman claimed “<i>public confidence in the media has collapsed during this emergency”.</i></p>
<p>Across the industry, 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.</p>
<p>In London, the Evening Standard – which is distributed for free across the transport network – was forced to make significant efforts to cut staff costs.</p>
<p>Its sister websites the Independent and Indy100 were also affected.</p>
<p>Elsewhere in London, daily financial paper City AM has suspended its print operation.</p>
<p>Despite its apparent hostility to some quarters of the media, last month the British Government revealed it had set up a three-month advertising partnership across the newspaper industry to push its “<i>stay at home”</i> message.</p>
<p>The deal was set up in partnership with Newsworks, a marketing body for national newspapers, which hoped to help provide a lifeline to struggling outlets.</p>
<p>It is understood the newspaper industry originally asked for £45 million for the campaign but the final total was not disclosed.</p>
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