There’s gotta be some way to do something like turning NPR and PBS into a multi-media state funded NGO to support the news industry at the local, state, and national levels. Probably international too but that’d probably require oversight from the Dept of State because of the heightened risk of international journalists becoming political prisoners. Maybe making journalists diplomats as a shield for their reporting.

IDK how it’d all have to work, you need to balance the need to keep all tiers of journalism funded with the authoritarians who’d see that and immediately begin seeing opportunities to coerce desirable reporting.