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      'Save the News' Campaign Urges Immediate Covid-19 Relief Funds to Sustain Local Journalism in Time of Crisis

      'Save the News' Campaign Urges Immediate Covid-19 Relief Funds to Sustain Local Journalism in Time of Crisis

      "Americans need access to information about their local communities more than ever, and yet layoffs and furloughs are only increasing as this pandemic continues."

      Jessica Corbett
      May 18, 2020

      In response to the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the news industry--forcing tens of thousands of layoffs, furloughs, and pay cuts in recent months--the nation's largest labor union for media workers launched a new "Save the News" campaign on Monday and urged Congress to provide relief to an industry that should be considered an essential service in a democracy.

      "Americans need access to information about their local communities more than ever, and yet layoffs and furloughs are only increasing as this pandemic continues. Congress needs to act to save the news before it's too late."
      --Jon Schleuss, The NewsGuild

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      As Covid-19 Devastates Already Struggling Industry, New Blueprint Sets Forth Bold Vision to Save Local Journalism

      As Covid-19 Devastates Already Struggling Industry, New Blueprint Sets Forth Bold Vision to Save Local Journalism

      "Congress must act now to save jobs and ensure crucial economic and health information reaches the people harmed most by this pandemic."

      Jessica Corbett
      May 11, 2020

      As the coronavirus pandemic continued to devastate local news outlets across the United States--even as some have seen audience and subscription boosts--the group Free Press Action on Monday unveiled a proposal to provide crucial financial relief to newsrooms and reporters while envisioning a more sustainable future for the industry.

      The proposal, What a Journalism-Recovery Package Should Look Like During the Covid-19 Crisis (pdf), calls for Congress to allocate direct and indirect subsidies to journalists through the end of 2021 and to substantially increase federal funding for public-media institutions to protect local reporting jobs.

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      Corporate America Is on Offense--Local Communities Can Be Too

      Corporate America Is on Offense--Local Communities Can Be Too

      This crisis calls for us to challenge the government system that is failing us. Now is an opportunity for radical collective action.

      Simon Davis-Cohen
      Tish O'Dell
      Mar 31, 2020

      Since a national emergency was called in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of Kentucky signed a bill (HB 44) that seeks to over-criminalize climate protests, the governor of South Dakota signed a bill to punish protesters and climate activists, and Pennsylvania designated pipeline construction an essential service.

      On the federal level, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has effectively been suspended, America's largest corporate employers (those with 500+ employees) were exempted from paid sick leave mandates in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, and government allies and corporate interests are treating the global pandemic as a business opportunity. Ahead of the emergency, members of Congress dumped their stocks--then made investments in companies that would benefit from a crisis (before alerting the public). Corporations are jacking up the price of potential treatments. BlackRock is facilitating the multi-trillion dollar government corporate bailout.

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