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Six UK dailies receive Google coronavirus emergency funds

googleSix daily newspapers are among the recipients of emergency funding from Google aimed at helping news publishers through the coronavirus crisis.

Google has now published the full list of UK recipients from its journalism emergency relief fund, which has offered grants of between $5,000 and $30,000 have been made to newsrooms across the world.

More than 100 titles have benefited across the country, mainly from smaller or hyperlocal publishers.

On the list are DC Thomson dailies the Dundee Courier and Aberdeen’s Press & Journal, along with the Belfast-based Irish News and London’s City AM.

The Midland News Association, publisher of Wolverhampton daily the Express & Star and the Shropshire Star, is also a beneficiary.

A Google spokeswoman said: “In the last few months, we have provided $39.5 million in funding to more than 5600 publishers in 115 countries.

“The money is being applied in diverse and creative ways, from ensuring basic reporting needs and giving emergency stipends to allow reporters to cover the crisis, to driving audience engagement and generating subscriptions.”

The full list of UK beneficiaries is as follows:

104.7 Island FM
Altrincham Today
Armagh I
Ballymena Guardian
Bedford Independent
Birmingham Updates
Brighton and Hove News
Bristol24/7
Bromsgrove Standard
Caerphilly Observer
Cambridge Independent
Camden New Journal, Islington Tribune, Westminster Extra
Campbeltown Courier (Wyvex Media Ltd)
Channel 103
City AM
Coleraine Chronicle
Cornwall Reports
County Down Outlook
Coventry Observer
Cumberland & Westmorland Herald
Droitwich Standard
East Devon News.co.uk
Evesham and Pershore Observer
Fermanagh Herald
Glossop Chronicle
Goole Times
Hackney Citizen
Hastings Online Times
Henley Standard
insidecroydon.com
Island Echo (ICNN)
Jewish Telegraph
Just Regional
KCW London
KentOnline
KMTV
Latest Group CIC
Leamington Observer
Llanelli Online
Londra Gazete
LymeOnline
Maidenhead Advertiser & Slough Express
Malvern Observer
Melksham Indpendent News
Midland News Association
MKFM
MyWelshpool and MyNewtown
New Milton Advertiser and Lymington Times
New Valley News
Newbury Weekly News
Newry Democrat
News OnTheWight
Northern Scot
notizie.umbria.it
Nub News
OLAY GAZETESI
Perth Gazette
RADAR
Redditch and Alcester Standard
Rochdale Online
Ross-Shire Journal
Rugby and Lutterworth Observer
Saddleworth Independent
Salford Star
Sheffield Live
Shetland News
So Counties
SoGlos
Solihull Observer
South London Press
Southwark News
Star Radio
Stratford-upon-Avon Observer
Strathspey and Badenoch Herald
SWNS
Tameside Reporter
Teesdale Mercury
The Arran Banner
The Barnsley Chronicle
The Bureau Local
The Courier/The Press and Journal
The Ferret
The Guildford Dragon
The Inverness Courier
The Irish News
The Lincolnite
The Moorlander
The Northern Times
The Oban Times
The Shetland Times
The Spalding and South Holland Voice
The Week In
The Wokingham Paper
Thorne Times
Tottenham Community Press
Tyrone Constution
Tyrone Courier
Ulster Gazette
VIEWDigital
Waltham Forest Echo
West Highland Free Press
Woking News & Mail
Worcester Observer
Wrexham.com
YourThurrock.Com
Zetha Ltd

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