Opinion: The pandemic has made local news indispensable. It’s also killing it.
to help local news outlets that are struggling to maintain operations in the face of the pandemic. It didn’t provide a specific figure but said it would offer grants ranging from the “low thousands of dollars” for the smallest operations to “low tens of thousands for larger newsrooms.” Facebook last monthit would donate $100 million to support news organizations globally hurt by the pandemic.
it was responding to the crisis with the largest expansion of its program — placing 225 journalists into 162 newsrooms — since its launch in 2017.The Opinions section is looking for stories of how the coronavirus has affected people of all walks of life. Write to us. Good, too, that others — in academia, from nonprofits and in Congress — are looking at ways to shore up local news during this unprecedented public health crisis. The Cares Act passed by Congress provides benefits to U.S. companies, but only a few news outlets were able to qualify for benefits under the Payroll Protection Plan. That has added to the push by some forto local news outlets.
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