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Most local newsrooms in the U.S. have one thing in common: They need more money, and many dream of dollars they can use however they want. In 2024, Press Forward, the nonprofit trying to mobilize a philanthropic army for local news, announced it would give at least 100 small local newsrooms — those with annual...