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Advocates push New York to fund nonprofit local news after tax credits favor for-profits
Summary
On BronxNet's In the District, Jim Heaney of The Investigative Post urged New York state to provide grant funding for nonprofit local news, saying current tax credits—about $25,000 per employee—apply only to for-profit outlets and leave nonprofits without support.
On BronxNet’s In the District, host Javier E. Gomez interviewed Jim Heaney, editor and executive director of The Investigative Post, about efforts to expand state support for nonprofit local news amid steep newsroom cuts.
Heaney, a longtime newspaper reporter who founded The Investigative Post in 2012, said newspapers have lost most of their reporting staffs over the past two decades and estimated "up to three quarters of journalism jobs in newspapers have disappeared," linking the drop to shrinking newspaper revenues and staff cuts. He added that the loss of local coverage contributes to lower civic participation and increases the risk of corruption: "Journalism is critical to a functioning democracy," Heaney said.
The guests discussed a 2024 New York program that…
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