Editorial independence

The Community NEWS Act (AB 2222), sponsored by Rebuild Local News, creates refundable tax credits to help California news outlets retain and hire local journalists

More than 12,000 local journalists in California have lost their jobs since 2002 as traditional newsroom business models have unraveled

The bill would establish the nation’s largest investment in community news, expanding reporting capacity and coverage across California

Our plan is to build on California’s original local news deal with Google, increasing the fund to $125 million per year by requiring Meta and ...

H244 requires state agencies to allocate 80 percent of their advertising budgets to local news outlets, bolstering community journalism with independent oversight that ensures transparency ...

The Rebuild Local News Coalition usually prefers universal, formula-based, tax-based programs to help local news because they are more likely to get substantial support to ...