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New Mexico governor signs legislation that provides tax credits to local newspapers

New Mexico has taken a practical step to strengthen local news in communities across the state. Through Senate Bill 151 and House Bill 2, state leaders have adopted a targeted approach that directs support straight into the places where local news is actually produced — local newspapers.

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham deserves credit for signing this legislation into law and recognizing the important role independent local media play in communities across New Mexico. READ MORE

New Mexico Governor Lujan Grisham signs legislation supporting local journalism and newspaper printing

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed SB151, landmark legislation that includes two targeted tax credits designed to strengthen local journalism and preserve newspaper printing infrastructure across the state.
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Polling wasn’t the only clue before Tuesday’s election that the spell President Donald Trump cast over America was fading. Another sign was that people are trusting the press again. Surveys in late summer found trust in news media rebounding, even among Republicans who fell for the “fake news” malarkey that Trump peddled for a decade.
Most Americans — including majorities of both Republicans and Democrats — say criticism from news organizations keeps political leaders from doing things that they shouldn’t, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in August.
Meta has indefinitely delayed its proposed commercial terms of service, which would have permitted the company to scrape the websites of Meta Business account users.
The press at the former Chattanooga Times Free Press office on 11th Street printed its final edition of the newspaper on Nov. 1 as the company moves print production to Knoxville.
Paxton Media Group has acquired the publishing and printing operations of Louisiana State Newspapers, bringing together two longstanding, family-owned newspaper companies. The transaction includes 14 community publications and a printing facility serving the Acadiana region of Louisiana.
College journalists are embracing their responsibility to educate and inform campus and community about elections — many for the first time.
Americans are more likely than they were a year ago to trust information from national and local news organizations, according to a new Pew Research Center survey conducted in September 2026. Trust has increased modestly among supporters of both major political parties and across age groups.
Newspack is a project of WordPress.com, with support from the Google News Initiative, the Knight Foundation and The Lenfest Institute. It is an open source technology and services platform that is home to more than 300 independent news organizations around the globe.
The new Fund from Social Finance, supported by anchor funders the MacArthur Foundation and Knight Foundation, along with Press Forward, will invest in local news organizations across the United States.
Meta’s proposed commercial terms could allow it to scrape and use publishers’ website content, potentially for AI products, without specific permission or compensation. This column by Dean Ridings, president and CEO of America's Newspapers, argues that publishers should not have to surrender rights to their journalism simply to maintain a presence on Facebook and Instagram.
This morning, the News/Media Alliance filed its amicus brief in the multi-district litigation (MDL) in which over a dozen news publishers have sued OpenAI and Microsoft for using their content without permission to train AI systems and power real-time AI answers (RAG). The News/Media Alliance is joined in this brief by cosigners National Newspaper Association, the National Press Photographers Association and ProPublica.
Meta will complete “a full consultation” with news industry leaders before implementing its controversial new terms — even if it means another delay, an executive for the social media company announced Oct. 28.
Associated Press journalists and staff from across the globe whose contributions and achievements over the past year significantly supported its mission are among the winners of the 2026 Oliver S. Gramling Awards, the organization’s highest internal honors.
This week, the Houston Chronicle launched “Change of State,” a YouTube series that follows statewide columnist Chris Tomlinson from the Houston suburbs to Brownsville, San Antonio, Fort Worth and beyond. In it, Tomlinson documents the undeniable demographic changes reshaping the Lone Star State’s politics, economy and culture. 
Meta has pushed back the date of the change by three weeks to Friday, Nov. 20. The delay comes one day after a major trade group for news publishers sent a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding that the forthcoming terms be withdrawn.
As artificial intelligence reshapes how people find and consume news, a new report from the Tow-Knight Center for Journalism Futures at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY examines what it will take to ensure the public has access to reliable, relevant information.
The News/Media Alliance, the largest news media trade association representing over 2,000 newspaper, magazine and digital media publishers in the United States, delivered a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding the company withdraw its revised Commercial Terms of Use before they take effect on Oct. 30.
The state’s challenging geography and newspapers’ broader economic struggles have stretched reporters in Alaska, just as its competitive U.S. Senate race has grabbed national attention.

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