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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is keeping the pressure on NPR to explain its funding and its editorial decision-making. It is part of the fallout from the resignation of NPR editor Uri Berliner this spring following his public accusations the public media network engages in biased reporting.
The 90-degree heat was already bearing down on me at noon in the parking lot across the street from the Butler Farm Show grounds. The last time I parked here, I watched a cow lick corn out of my then 2-year-old son’s hand. This time, I was here to work.
A Massachusetts broadcast journalism veteran will head up Rhode Island’s newly merged public media organization.
Alejandra Santamaria, who most recently served as interim president, general manager and VP, director of sales for Univision Los Angeles, has been selected as new president and chief executive officer of Southern California Public Radio (SCPR) by the SCPR board of trustees. Santamaria will join SCPR and LAist in July and succeeds CEO Herb Scannell, who recently retired from the role.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced July 15 that it has selected the Poynter Institute to develop and deliver a new and significantly larger second phase of its Digital Transformation Program. The training will educate and coach up to 225 public media entities and hundreds of station leaders and their staffs to develop and optimize an audience-first, multi-platform approach to their organizational strategies, operations and culture.
PBS News and PolitiFact, the political fact-checking website operated by the nonprofit Poynter Institute, have announced a partnership that will run through the 2024 election cycle, beginning with the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
The House Appropriations Committee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies has proposed eliminating future funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in its FY 2025 appropriations bill.
Public media stations Unalaska Community Broadcasting in Alaska, South Texas Public Broadcasting System, and Radio Catskill and North Country Public Radio, both in New York state, have each been awarded funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to upgrade their equipment to provide enhanced emergency alerting.
NPR announced today that it has received a $5.5 million grant from philanthropists Eric and Wendy Schmidt to further expand public media’s collaborative journalism efforts.
Early reporting for national nonprofit fundraising indicates that 2023 was a difficult year, as consumer confidence lagged in the face of ongoing high grocery prices and despite otherwise strong …
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