RT @EFJEUROPE
#Funding opportunity 🗺️

The new grant programme #LocalMedia4Democracy was launched today with our partner @journalismfund! Applications are now accepted from for a new #grant programme to support #localnews, regional and #communitymedia in the European "#newsdeserts". https://twitter.com/journalismfund/status/1638858909980012544

It is odd to see a Democratic state legislator attack #journalism like this, especially in context of Ron #Desantis and MAGA attack on media.

Even odder given the #waleg attack on public records. It's an oddly bad look

For the record, this is the study that shows the connection between news deserts and government finance

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3175555

Also I don't think the particular tax cut will do anything more than pay off hedge fund owners of #newspapers, but #newsdeserts are serious

"If Nader has his way, the website will be a sideshow to the printed main event, as he believes digital publications fail to engage readers because they’re too cluttered and abbreviated. Plus, he said, the 'real decisionmakers' get their news in print."

Leave it to Ralph Nader, though, to identify a problem and then come up with the clumsiest, most ham-fisted and polarizing way to address it!

#newspapers #NewsDeserts #PrintIsNotDead #cmonson

https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2023/ralph-nader-launch-winted-citizen-connecticut-print-newspaper/