11 C.F.R. § 100.73

News story, commentary, or editorial by the media

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Any cost incurred in covering or carrying a news story, commentary, or editorial by any broadcasting station (including a cable television operator, programmer or producer), website, newspaper, magazine, or other periodical publication, including any Internet or electronic publication, is not a contribution unless the facility is owned or controlled by any political party, political committee, or candidate, in which case the costs for a news story:

(a) That represents a bona fide news account communicated in a publication of general circulation or on a licensed broadcasting facility; and

(b) That is part of a general pattern of campaign-related news accounts that give reasonably equal coverage to all opposing candidates in the circulation or listening area, is not a contribution.

[67 FR 50585, Aug. 5, 2002, as amended at 71 FR 18613, Apr. 12, 2006; 89 FR 215, Jan. 2, 2024]

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 2010–2020 · leading case: Campaign Legal Ctr. v. Fed. Election Comm'n (D.D.C. 2020).

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Campaign Legal Ctr. v. Fed. Election Comm'n (D.D.C. 2020). · cites it 2× “, ¶¶ 57, 62, “f[e]ll under the ‘media exemption’” of “11 C.F.R. § 100.73[, which] exempts from the definition of ‘contribution’ ‘any cost incurred in covering or carrying a news story, commentary, or editorial.”

Maryland Attorney Gen. Opinion 95 OAG 110 (Md. Att'y Gen. 2010). · cites it 2× “” See 11 CFR §§100.73 (contributions), 100.132 (expenditures).”

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