Employee Retention Tax Credit
The new law offers newsrooms tax credits for retaining and hiring journalists. Its backers hope it can do much more
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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
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An overview of California’s local journalist employment credit for newsrooms enacted in 2026, explaining how the program works, who qualifies, and the safeguards designed to ...
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The bill would be funded by closing a tax loophole. New research finds addressing the state’s news deserts would add even more to the bottom ...
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More than 12,000 local journalists in California have lost their jobs since 2002 as traditional newsroom business models have unraveled
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Historically broad coalition comes together to support AB 2222, which would create refundable employment credits to support newsroom employment and local reporting across California
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The Community NEWS Act would provide refundable tax credits to help California news outlets retain and hire local journalists
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