Facebook, Google and The Exit of Alan Rusbridger From Mainstream Media

The ‘unGuardian-like’ action of The Guardian’s new management duo, which saw Rusbridger quit last week as Chairman of the Scott Trust (which funds the Guardian), was a brutal sign of just how much harder the news business has become in the past year.

According to The Guardian’s Mark Sweney, “more than £150m in print ads disappeared” in the last year, with giants like Facebook and Google scooping up the forecasted growth in digital ad revenue.

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