“People want more local news, and local newsrooms are looking for more support,” Campbell Brown wrote in 2019 when Meta (then Facebook) announced its three-year, $300 million commitment to global “news programs, partnerships, and content.” ...
The Tow Center has tallied data about all known Meta Journalism Project initiatives publicly announced since 2018 that were both aimed at U.S. local news organizations and had a direct funding component. Through this endeavor we have traced 564 news organizations that shared $29.4 million of direct funding through 17 MJP programs.
