More on the Media Lab and its plan to pair social media creators and journalists in L.A.:

lataco.com/media-lab-an...

If you missed signing up for our newsletter before, you can catch it next month:

www.tinynewsco.org/newsletter-s...

And we also give shout-outs to Black by God | The West Virginian, Harvey World Herald, Project Optimist, Eden Prairie Local News and Four Points Press for receiving grants for their important work.

That includes communities based in language, faith traditions, professional backgrounds, racial and ethnic identities, shared interests, diasporas, etc.

Have a wonderful, restful holiday season and be sure to follow all the news about local news in News @ Knight in the new year! /5

newsatknight.substack.com

Also, many large nonprofit newsrooms merged, and others had expansions to cover news deserts, with funding from AJP. Plus, @knightfdn.bsky.social launched a new Growth Challenge Fund to support expansion of for-profit and nonprofit newsrooms. /4

knightfoundation.org/articles/the...

Public policy supporting local news also hit an all-time high, with NY state passing a tax credit bill for $90M over 3 years, Illinois passing a bill for $25M over 5 years, with California making a deal with Google to spend $250M over five years. /3

newsguild.org/new-york-leg...

An incredible higlight of the year was #PressForward announcing $100K grants to 205 smallish newsrooms including at least one in every state. With aligned funding, Press Forward has disbursed more than $170M this year! /2

www.pressforward.news/press-forwar...