Facebook Journalism Project Grants Nearly $16M to Local News Publishers

It also teamed up with CrowdTangle to study 2,700 pages during the Covid-19 crisis

Facebook continues to take steps to help local news publishers during the coronavirus pandemic, naming over 200 recipients of Covid-19 Relief Fund grants in the U.S., totaling nearly $16 million, and releasing a report by the Facebook Journalism Project and CrowdTangle on local news industry trends during the Covid-19 crisis.

The grants come from the $25 million in local news relief funding that was included in plans revealed by Facebook in late March to invest $100 million in the news industry globally.

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