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Articles tagged tax credits (6)

Sarah ScireFebruary 27, 2025

A new public policy agenda has a vision for “local news for the people”

The Media Power Collaborative compares local news to public goods like safe roads and public education. Will excluding newspaper chains and hedge fund owners make public funding for local news any easier to achieve?

Sarah ScireJuly 26, 2023

Federal aid for local news gets a makeover

The new bill would create advertising tax credits and payroll tax credits for five years.

Sarah ScireJune 27, 2023

If the U.S. wants to boost journalism, it should learn from Canada’s mistakes

“There are other big questions hanging over the program, like whether it has actually helped stave off the collapse of newsrooms.”

Sarah ScireApril 26, 2022

Canada offered a tax credit to encourage digital news subscriptions. Here’s how it’s going.

Data from the tax credit’s first year is now available. The effect has been muted.

Sarah ScireSeptember 14, 2021

Some questions (and answers) about the Local Journalism Sustainability Act

If the proposed legislation becomes law, it would offer substantial help to many local newsrooms at a critical time.

Heather Rollwagen and Ivor ShapiroMarch 21, 2019

Research from Canada suggests journalists’ creed can withstand government support

Social psychologists have demonstrated a significant link between people’s behavior, their values, and the norms of their milieu, and that they feel rewarded when they act consistently with their beliefs.