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Royal Charter: many publishers 'may go it alone'

A leading journalist has predicted that many publishers will refuse to sign up to the Royal Charter, should it be put into force.

Speaking to Sky News, The Independent's Chris Blackhurst said that although he doesn't speak for the rest of the industry he expects the "larger" businesses to reject the charter.

I'm afraid I think we're reaching a situation where the larger groups will go it alone.

– Chris Blackhurst, Former Editor of The Independent

Speaking for The Independent and the Evening Standard, Blackhurst said "there's very little of this that we can object to, but our problem is we don't really want to be on our own".