Sweden to spend millions to boost media in rural areas

The parliament has agreed to start spending 677 million kronor on a new kind of media subsidy.

Radio Sweden spoke to the publishers’ association, which welcomes the reform, which will target areas that today are more or less lacking media coverage today and also embrace all kinds of media instead of just newspapers.

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