Facebook on Tuesday announced the 400 news organizations that are receiving a first round of grants to help support coronavirus news coverage. The social media platform last month promised a total of $100 million to prop up local newsrooms that have been hit hard by the financial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. Tuesday’s announcement represents $2 million of that total. Applications for the next round of these grants begin Monday. Campbell Brown, Facebook’s vice president for global news partnerships, tells NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly about what these grants say about Facebook’s priorities. (Note: Facebook is a financial supporter of NPR.) Here is some of that interview: How is Facebook prioritizing which outlets will get grants? Well, this started as a smaller pilot project with about $2 million. … What we realized is that local newsrooms were pretty desperate in this moment. They were trying to do more with less and they were being impacted by the economic slowdown in the way
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