Nine’s AFR print edition to cease in WA after Seven’s press doubles production price

Seven says decision purely commercial but Financial Review editor accuses rival company of ‘abuse of market power’

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The print edition of Nine’s Australian Financial Review will no longer be available in Western Australia after the Seven-owned printing facility doubled the price of producing the newspaper.

Billionaire media mogul Kerry Stokes owns the only major newspaper printing press in the state and has contracts to print competitors’ products, including the financial daily for Nine as well as The Australian for News Corp.

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