Sacramento, CA – Today, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2222, the Community Newsroom Employment and Workforce Sustainability Act, or “Community NEWS Act,” into law. Sponsored by Assemblymembers Chris Ward and Buffy Wicks, AB 2222 creates a journalist employment tax credit model with a straightforward approach: to preserve local journalism, the bill helps publishers afford to employ and retain local journalists. It offers a “news-neutral” mechanism, one that creates refundable employment tax credits for qualifying local news organizations – regardless of size, speech, and structure – that hire and retain journalists across the state. 

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