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CSUSB professor: ‘Area House reps should co-sponsor and pass the Local Journalism Sustainability Act to save local news’
Fontana Herald News
Nov. 16, 2021
Thomas Corrigan, CSUSB associate professor of communication studies, wrote an opinion piece in support of a Congressional bill – the Local Journalism Sustainability Act – that could help local newspapers whose reporting staffs have been severely gutted as a result of shrinking ad revenue and corporate consolidation. It's important, he wrote, because “as local newspapers contract, public knowledge and voter participation fall, and government costs and secrecy rise. In short, the crisis in journalism is a crisis in American democracy and civic life.”
Corrigan said that the Local Journalism Sustainability Act, which has bipartisan support, though no Inland Empire Congressional members have yet endorsed it, “includes three main provisions: a $250 tax credit to subscribe or donate to local news organizations; a $5,000 tax credit for small businesses to advertise in local publications; and a payroll tax credit to cover up to half of some newsworkers' salaries.”
Read the complete article at “Area House reps should co-sponsor and pass the Local Journalism Sustainability Act to save local news.”
The Inland Empire Community News also picked up the column on Nov. 16: “Ghost newspapers” haunt the Inland Empire – area House reps should co-sponsor and pass Local Journalism Sustainability Act to save local news.”
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