---
kind: "section"
citation: "11 C.F.R. § 100.73"
title: "11"
number: "100.73"
heading: "News story, commentary, or editorial by the media."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/11/100.73"
---

# §100.73. News story, commentary, or editorial by the media.


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.

## Notes

### Amendments

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

### Source

Source: 67 FR 50585, Aug. 5, 2002, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 52 U.S.C. 30101, 30102(g), 30104, 30111(a)(8), and 30114(c).

### Source

Source: 45 FR 15094, Mar. 7, 1980, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

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