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A few days before the publication of the already famous report by British MPs calling Facebook a "digital gangster", another important report was published in the United Kingdom. The press is in danger; and if nothing is done quickly, an entire industry, or even democracy, could die a slow death, warns this expert document. What solutions are possible in the face of these threats?

Here are the main lessons to remember for “a sustainable future for journalism” .

Journalism in the UK in full “disruption”…

The Cairncross report, drawn up by a university journalist at luxembourg cell phone number list the request of the Prime Minister, of journalism in a democracy. It is vital. Necessary. It defends a journalism of "excellence" so that the regime is as holy as possible, responding to codes, practices, standards allowing to give legitimacy to the profession. But it is above all on the notion of information of general interest that this report is in question. This type of information would thus be in danger in the United Kingdom.

Like most Western countries, the British press has been hit hard by the arrival of the Internet , which has impacted its economic model. With a drastic drop in advertising revenues in print format, it is still struggling to compensate for losses in digital. Since advertising revenues are mainly captured by web giants, it has had to make savings. That is to say, to the detriment of investments it could have made to support its digital transformation or by cutting back on information costs (- 6,000 journalists since 2007 in the United Kingdom).