Corporation for Public Broadcasting pulls its own plug

The biggest funder of public media votes to shut itself down ahead of the Trump administration’s plan to do so.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Votes to Shut Down

Executives debated whether to allow the corporation to lie dormant after federal funding ended last year, but decided against ...
Talking Points Memo

Public Broadcasting Cuts Are Already Putting Trump’s Supporters in Rural America at Risk

When Donald Trump directed Congress to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), he and his allies pushed a long time, right-wing narrative about targeting liberal “bias” at NPR and PBS.

Local stations will see funding impact of Corporation for Public Broadcasting dissolution

After 58 years, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is no more. The organization announced its dissolution following ...
Current

Why public media must rethink assumptions shaped by CPB funding

This commentary was first published on the author’s LinkedIn page and is republished here with permission. Public media has existed in two distinct eras, and we’re entering the third. The first was ...
LAist

NPR and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting clash as federal funding declines

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