NEW YORK —
Facebook says it is investing $300 million over the next three years in local news programs, partnerships and other initiatives.
The money will go toward reporting grants for local newsrooms,
expanding Facebook’s program to help local newsrooms with subscription
business models and investing in nonprofits aimed at supporting local
news.
The move comes at a difficult time for the news industry, which is
facing falling profits and print readership. Facebook, like Google, has
also been partly blamed for the ongoing decline in newspapers’ share of
advertising dollars as people and advertisers have moved online.
Campbell Brown, Facebook’s head of global news partnerships,
acknowledges the company “can’t uninvent the internet,” but says it
wants to work with publishers to help them succeed on and off the social
network.
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