Local news outlets could reap $1.7 billion in Build Back Better aid

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For The Storm Lake Times, a family-run paper in northwestern Iowa, it could mean $200,000 in federal subsidies the first year and nearly $500,000 over the four years after that.

For EO Media, which publishes more than a dozen community newspapers in the Pacific Northwest, it could amount to $1.2 million the first year and $2.9 million over the next four.

And Gannett, the largest newspaper chain in the country, could receive $37.5 million the first year and tens of millions after that.

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