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The move is part of Facebook s answer to the trend of email newsletters, led by platforms like Substack, as it focuses on reporters who are often the lone voice covering a given community, the company has said.
The publishing platform, which Facebook announced last month, will be integrated with Facebook Pages and include a free self-publishing tool for journalists to send out newsletters or create their own website.
Journalists will be able to earn additional money from publishing stories using Facebook`s tools.
Facebook Inc said Thursday it will give $5 million to pay local journalists in multi-year deals as part of its new publishing platform to help independent writers attract an audience and make money through the social media network.
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Facebook to pay $5m to local journalists in newsletter push
Facebook has pledged to invest $1 billion in the news industry globally over the next three years
Reuters
April 30, 2021
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Facebook on Thursday said it will give $5 million to pay local journalists in multiyear deals as part of its new publishing platform to help independent writers attract an audience and make money through the social media network.
The move is part of Facebook s answer to the trend of email newsletters, led by platforms like Substack, as it focuses on reporters who are often the lone voice covering a given community, the company has said.
Facebook to pay $5 million to local journalists in newsletter push
By Sheila Dang
Reuters
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc said Thursday it will give $5 million to pay local journalists in multi-year deals as part of its new publishing platform to help independent writers attract an audience and make money through the social media network.
The move is part of Facebook s answer to the trend of email newsletters, led by platforms like Substack, as it focuses on reporters who are often the lone voice covering a given community, the company has said.
The publishing platform, which Facebook announced last month, will be integrated with Facebook Pages and include a free self-publishing tool for journalists to send out newsletters or create their own website.
TNT adds community-funded reporter to cover indigenous communities. Here s how to help
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 4/29/2021 Stephanie Pedersen, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
Apr. 29 The News Tribune, along with sister papers in Olympia, Bellingham and Tri-Cities, is adding a reporter to cover indigenous communities in Washington state.
Natasha Brennan starts June 1. Her coverage will focus on tribes in the state of Washington, their impact in our local communities, environment, politics and more.
Natasha said she became inspired to specialize in writing about Native American culture and issues as a child visiting her father s family on the Cahuilla Reservation in southern California.