As Congress slogs to its holiday recess, a subsidy for the salaries of local journalists — included in the mammoth Build Back Better bill — still has bright prospects, proponents told me this week, but consideration is likely to spill past the New Year.
Specifically, several members of the group steering advocacy of the measure met with staffers of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) and were assured that he strongly supports helping local news outlets, many of them struggling financially.
