What State Legislatures Are Doing to Support Local Journalism

Following historic steps forward in California, New Jersey, New Mexico and Washington over the past few years, state legislatures are increasingly springing ...

Variety of state legislative supports for local news media act as a ...

Directing government funds to local news is the most commonly proposed method of support proposed in state legislation, with increasing interest among state ...

Which states are taking legislative action to support local news?

Several state legislators have introduced 11 bills that would support local journalism in their states. These bills are more likely to be tailored specifically ...

An Overview of State and Local Legislation to Support Local News

Since 2017, in response to catastrophic declines in the commercial model that has traditionally undergirded U.S. journalism, lawmakers in 10 ...

Meet The States Using Public Funding to Support Local Journalism

Gavin Newsom signed California Assembly Bill 179 into law and, with it, dedicated $25 million to funding local reporting in places underserved ...

State Activity Tracker - Rebuild Local News

Colorado state legislators proposed a tax credit for small businesses to advertise in local news, based on the Local Journalism Sustainability Act in 2022. It ...

Local Journalism Sustainability Act 117th Congress (2021-2022)

To provide tax incentives that support local newspapers and other local media, and for other purposes. ... State Legislature Websites · Bill Status Bulk Data ...

More states directly fund local news reporting - Nieman Lab

New Jersey, New Mexico, California, and Washington are now among state governments providing financial support to weakened news organizations struggling to ...

The State of Local News 2023

... doing investigative journalism. There ... state levels to guide decisions about regulations and legislation to support local news.

117th Congress (2021-2022): Local Journalism Sustainability Act

The bill also allows local newspaper employers a payroll tax credit for wages paid to an employee for service as a local news journalist and certain small ...

Policy Solutions to Transform Local Journalism - Free Press

Across the country, a new movement to reimagine local news is taking root. In response to the ongoing decimation of local newspapers, ...

Gov. Pritzker Signs Legislation Creating the Local Journalism Task ...

"Many of the residents of the state are deprived of comprehensive local news coverage," said State Rep. Dave Vella (D-Rockford). "Local news coverage provides a ...

Local Journalism Sustainability Act | News Media Alliance

The Alliance supports the “Local Journalism Sustainability Act,” which would provide tax credits to businesses and consumers to support local news.

Klobuchar, Kennedy Introduce Bipartisan Legislation To Save Local ...

Create a limited safe harbor from federal and state antitrust laws for eligible digital journalism providers that allows them to participate in ...

'The Most Ambitious Package of Local Journalism Policy' | Local ...

The ailing local news industry in Illinois would receive compensation from Big Tech companies and benefit from state tax incentives and a new journalism ...

Congress reintroduces Save Local News Act - The NewsGuild

As the number of local newsrooms across the country continues to dwindle, members of Congress have reintroduced legislation to keep ...

JCPA Resource Center | News/Media Alliance

Share your support for the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act — and ask your Member of Congress to do the same — by tweeting at them with one of our ...

In Illinois, Two Bills Aim to Put Reporters Back into Communities

It also establishes provisions for the sale of local news organizations to out-of-state companies and creates a journalism student scholarship ...

Senators try again with legislation to support local journalism

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is trying again to pass a bill that would waive antitrust law to allow local news organizations to ...

Legislators have reintroduced a bill to examine the state of local ...

The bill would create a 13-member committee to study the state of local journalism and recommend to Congress actions to support the ...