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

The threat to local journalism and the accountability it brings to government is one of the most important issues facing Colorado right now.

Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.

A key loan is suddenly in doubt and public transportation advocates said the stakes couldn’t be higher as the state funding would stave off dramatic BART and Muni cuts.

Independent redistricting is a darling in California politics. Its days may be numbered.

Pivot to ‘Abundance’ is shaking up longtime alliances with environmentalists, trade unions

Stations like KEET-TV in Eureka could become casualties of President Donald Trump’s plan to claw back $9 billion in public broadcasting funds.

The report from Rebuild Local News and Muck Rack finds that more than 1,000 counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist.

Since the start of the century, the number of journalists working in the United States has declined by more than 75 percent, according to the study.

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Online retail giants like Apple and Walmart gain the most from tax-sharing deals with California cities, but a closer look at the data shows that car dealers and other local businesses end up with the...

California lawmakers should insist the search giant start paying for the news reporting it appropriates.

Instead of calming things, President Trump's dispatch of National Guard troops to L.A. has escalated tensions. It may serve his interests by distracting and deflecting but abdicating presidential resp...

The state notched a first-in-nation deal for the tech giant to help fund struggling newsrooms — but is now changing the scope.

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California and Google to team up on media fund with much less funding than previous regulation attempts

Tax Big Tech to mitigate harm kids and news

The state confirmed Wednesday that it will pay out $10 million, instead of $30 million, to California newsrooms for the 2025-26 fiscal year.

“Tech platforms have captured the advertising profits that once sustained community newsrooms. Google was just found to have done so illegally.”

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 Amazon to also support community news.

With more than 900,000 students, New York’s public school system is the biggest in the United States, but it has received scant attention from candidates.

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Lisa Murkowski, a longtime senator from Alaska and an independent voice in an increasingly tribal party, has been the rare Republican on Capitol Hill willing to criticize President Trump’s actions.

The judge ruled that Google monopolized the market for two of three sets of products. It was the second time in a year that a U.S. court found it had acted illegally to remain dominant.

Cambodia’s authoritarian dynasty had silenced almost all of the country’s independent media. The remaining few are facing extinction because of an executive directive from President Trump.

People say they are intimidated by online attacks from the president, concerned about harm to their businesses or worried about the safety of their families.

The demise of an independent press in the United States might not look much like what readers expect. March 01, 2025 How does a free press in this country die? Probably not the way Americans imagine. ...

Long ago, another company tried to control global connectivity—it had an unhappy ending

The army base was earlier named after Braxton Bragg, a Confederate general. The Pentagon said the name will now honor Roland L. Bragg, a soldier who was decorated for his service during World War II.

The L.A. fires showed how essential local journalism remains to public safety. And yet newsrooms are in jeopardy of dissolving without political support.

The L.A. fires showed how essential local journalism remains to public safety. And yet newsrooms are in jeopardy of dissolving without political support.

Good Daily, which operates in 47 states and 355 towns and cities across the U.S., is run by one person.

Tyranny doesn’t happen overnight. Take it from the people who missed the first signs.