Public-interest journalism funding

Statement

Sustained public funding for non-partisan, local-coverage journalism rebuilds shared informational substrate and reduces dependence on engagement-driven national outlets, partially reversing fragmentation.

Provenance

Sources

• Reuters Institute — Public Funding of News
  report
  https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/our-research
  Comparative research on public-service-media funding effects on news trust, ideological balance, and local coverage.

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