2026 State Policy Playbook for Newsrooms

2026 State Policy Playbook for Newsrooms is a Community Resilience, Local News Day 2026: Activation Event for newsroom leaders and journalists: professional development Thursday, April 9, 2026, 3:30–4:30 PM EDT via Zoom (link in confirmation email). Explore emerging state policies—small business advertising tax credits, government advertising set-asides, journalism fellowships and employment incentives—national momentum, advocacy, messaging and policymaker engagement. Speakers from Rebuild Local News: Policy Director Matt Pearce, former Los Angeles Times writer who contributed to its 2023 Pulitzer-winning coverage of city officials’ racist comments, University of Missouri master’s graduate, 2024 NAHJ Sí Se Puede and SPJ President’s Award recipient for press freedom advocacy, and former president/co-founder of Media Guild of the West, a fast-growing NewsGuild-CWA union serving Southern California, Arizona and Texas; and Government Affairs and Partnerships Director Susan Patterson Plank.

Hosted with: Psychedelic Writers Guild