Danish Urban receives €1 million state support
Free Danish daily Urban, published by Berlingske Media (Mecom), will receive 7.3 million Dkr (€1 million) support from the Danish Newspaper Board ‘Dagbladsnævnet‘.
The money must be used to develop the paper over the next three years. It’s the highest support the Newspaper Board has handed out since it started operating three years ago. Berlingske is required to put in an equal sum.
Earlier, also MetroXpress and 24Timer received support, in those cases for distribution only. At that time Urban criticized these media for accepting support. (MediaWatch)
August 31st, 2009 at 9:50 am
[...] (see previous post) for 2009 and Urban will get €1m state support to develop its business (see previous post) paid newspapers complain that their ‘pot of gold’ is [...]
November 10th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
[...] For 2009, MetroXpress and 24timer (both majority owned by Metro Interational) recieved €2.3m for distribution (see previous post). Free daily Urban (Berlingske) ‘forgot’ to apply for funds but corrected that later by recieing €1m for other purposes from the Danish Press Fund (see previous post). [...]