New RISJ report on state funding for UK media

A new report by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University has shown that the UK press receives hundreds of millions of pounds in indirect subsidies from the government and has one of the highest levels of public funding in Europe. The study, written by Dr Rasmus Kleis Nielsen with former Reuters editor-in-chief Geert Linnebank, looked at six countries (Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the US, and the UK) and three forms of public sector support for the media: licence-fee funding, indirect support in the form of tax breaks and VAT-exemptions, and direct support.