Facebook is expanding its investment in local journalism, setting aside millions of dollars to support “news programs, partnerships and content,” according to Campbell Brown, the company’s vp, global news partnerships.
The money will include a $5 million endowment (matched by Pulitzer Center chair Emily Rauh Pulitzer) for a new program from the center called “Bringing Stories Home” that provides grants to newsrooms for local reporting, $2 million to Report for America to put journalists in local U.S. newsrooms and $1 million to the American Journalism Project, a philanthropic effort to support local journalism.
