GDPR bites for Johnston Press as group revenues slide 9%

Johnston Press has become one of the first media organisations to take a GDPR-related hit after the group cited the impact of more onerous European privacy restrictions as a contributory factor to a decline in digital ad revenues.
Overall revenues fell 9% over the first half of the year on the back of this weak performance, casting a cloud over today’s AGM at which shareholders were already set to fret over future paper costs and an ‘extremely challenging’ publishing sector.
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