News-Deserts on Cephas - Liana Banyan Knowledge Centerhttps://cephas.lianabanyan.com/tags/news-deserts/Recent content in News-Deserts on Cephas - Liana Banyan Knowledge CenterHugo -- 0.152.2en-us© 2026 Liana Banyan Corporation. All rights reserved.Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000I'm Just a Bill: Save Local Journalism Acthttps://cephas.lianabanyan.com/im-just-a-bill/save-local-journalism/Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://cephas.lianabanyan.com/im-just-a-bill/save-local-journalism/<h1 id="-im-just-a-bill--save-local-journalism-act">👀 I&rsquo;m Just a Bill — Save Local Journalism Act</h1> <h2 id="a-liana-banyan-im-just-a-bill-bounty-poster">A Liana Banyan &ldquo;I&rsquo;m Just a Bill&rdquo; Bounty Poster</h2> <h2 id="what-is-this-bill">What is this bill?</h2> <p>Local journalism support legislation in the 119th Congress addressing the documented collapse of local newsrooms (~1/3 of U.S. newspapers closed since 2005; ~200 million Americans live in news deserts).</p> <h2 id="what-does-it-actually-do">What does it actually do?</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Local journalism tax credit</strong> — for publishers employing local journalists</li> <li><strong>Subscriber credit</strong> — for individual subscribers to local outlets</li> <li><strong>Antitrust safe harbor</strong> — limited collective-bargaining authority for news publishers vs platform aggregators</li> <li><strong>Public-interest journalism grants</strong> — direct funding for investigative and civic journalism</li> <li><strong>Library/educational use</strong> — strengthens fair-use provisions for educational distribution</li> </ul> <h2 id="who-votes-when">Who votes when?</h2> <ul> <li>House Ways &amp; Means + Senate Finance + House/Senate Judiciary active consideration</li> </ul> <h2 id="how-does-this-affect-cooperative-class-families">How does this affect cooperative-class families?</h2> <p>Composes with <strong>#15 Power-to-the-People Council</strong> &ldquo;I&rsquo;m Just a Bill&rdquo; pilot (Bounty Posters are themselves a form of cooperative-class civic journalism), <strong>#13 JukeBox</strong> (cooperative-class media infrastructure), and <strong>PRESS Act</strong> Bounty Poster.</p>