- The Department of Culture and Linguistic Policy has distributed one more year of aid for "intensifying the news in Basque" in the media that mainly use Spanish. Almost a million euros have been distributed among the News, Gara and Vocento groups to publish some articles in Euskera.
The Vice-Minister for Linguistic Policy, Miren Dobaran Urrutia, has signed a resolution in which the Basque Government grants subsidies "to promote the use of Euskera in the media that mainly use Castilian". Like last year, EUR 1 million has been distributed and the majority has been allocated to the media of the News Group, Naiz-Gara and El Diario Vasco.
The News Group – News Journal of Álava, News of Gipuzkoa and Deia – has been granted EUR 431,595, 73,000 more than last year. Naiz-Gara has received €306,440 and El Diario Vasco €161,965. The remaining funds are allocated between the following three media and the news agency: Segura Irratia (€50,000), Europa Press (€29,162) and News Agency (€20,838).
Other EUR 6,000,000 in progress
The Basque Government has made this resolution public, while another great extraordinary aid is being processed, which will mainly be directed towards the Spanish-language media. The Lakua government announced "aid" at the end of July, before, in 2021 and in 2022 they were distributed "to deal with the consequences of COVID-19". This year, six million euros will be destined to "minimize the negative impact of creative artificial intelligence on the creation, elaboration and publication of content, and to combat misinformation", to distribute them among some media - in 2021 93.4% of the money-. It remains to be seen whether for the third consecutive year ARGIA will be excluded from these aids, since the call is directed to newspapers, radios, televisions, local media and digital natives, leaving the journals out. In any case, in the sector it is known that the objective of this aid is to solve the economic problems of some newspapers, including Deia.