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Three companies control 90% of UK national newspaper circulation. The far right is finding a megaphone in newsrooms that haven’t been held to account for decades. This is what happens when journalism answers to its owners instead of its readers.
The Bristol Cable was built as the counter.
Three companies — DMG Media, News UK and Reach — now control 90% of UK national newspaper circulation. Elon Musk owns the platform shaping what billions see. And just two corporations control over half of Britain’s 882 local newspapers. Meanwhile, the far right is finding a megaphone in newsrooms that haven’t been held to account for decades. This isn’t coincidence. This is what happens when journalism answers to its owners instead of its readers.
The Bristol Cable was built as the counter.
In 2014, a group of people in Bristol decided their city deserved journalism that no proprietor could buy, no advertiser could soften, and no hedge fund could cut. Twelve years on, we’ve unmasked crime bosses, exposed university surveillance programmes, changed housing policy, and got sewage pollution cited in parliament. We covered neo-Nazis marching through Bristol’s streets while the police looked the other way. We publish what we find — regardless of who’d rather we didn’t.
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