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California Is Considering Paying Newsrooms According to How Many Journalists They Employ
BySocialStorytellers Collective News Desk August 30, 2026August 30, 2026

AB 2222 would use refundable tax credits to preserve reporting jobs, turning newsroom payroll into a public-policy target. Structural Reality / Policy California lawmakers are weighing an unusual answer to the collapse of local journalism: pay news organizations by the head. Assembly Bill 2222 would provide a refundable state tax credit of $20,000 for each…

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The Pentagon Fired the Journalists Who Said the Pentagon Shouldn’t Control Their Journalism
BySocialStorytellers Collective News Desk August 22, 2026August 22, 2026

Stars and Stripes has always run on a contradiction: government money funding coverage of the government. The firings resolve it in the direction the funding always pointed. By Bryson Davis | Structural Reality Jocelyn Noveck reported for the Associated Press that the Pentagon dismissed Stars and Stripes editor-in-chief Erik Slavin, publisher Max Lederer and Middle East reporter Lara Korte, after Slavin and Korte objected publicly…

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