{"id":12640,"date":"2023-02-21T21:18:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T21:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12640"},"modified":"2023-03-21T21:19:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T21:19:53","slug":"rebuild-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/02\/21\/rebuild-local-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebuild Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>from The Guardian<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">US local news outlets need tax breaks to help save democracy, says advocate<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Steven Waldman says a new initiative, Rebuild Local News, wants to revitalize hundreds of outlets decimated by the industry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/385d6dd50e52e489fffb7ffd28e400bcdd87171a\/0_0_3264_1958\/master\/3264.jpg?width=465&amp;quality=85&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none\" alt=\"Pile of newspapers\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Waldman and his coalition estimate that it would bring in $3.5bn of relief to the local news economy via \u2018philanthropy, businesses, consumers and the government\u2019.\u00a0Photograph: Robert Kneschke\/Getty Images\/EyeEm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Local news organizations across the United States need to be given serious government financial help, especially in the form of tax breaks, in order to stave off a crisis in the media sector and help save US democracy, a leading advocate for local journalism has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steven Waldman, co-founder of Report for America, said a new initiative, called Rebuild Local News, wanted to revitalize hundreds of local news outlets across America decimated by changes in the industry, shifts in the sector\u2019s advertising revenue structure and more recently, the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2023\/feb\/21\/us-local-news-outlets-tax-breaks-rebuild-initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Guardian US local news outlets need tax breaks to help save democracy, says advocate Steven Waldman says a new initiative, Rebuild Local News, wants to revitalize hundreds of outlets decimated by the industry Local news organizations across the United States need to be given serious government financial help, especially in the form of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}