An industry veteran, Goldstein is the Executive Director of the Public Media Content Collective, and Childs is host of Mary in America as well as a best-selling author.

Last week, President Trump signed an executive order ordering the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to halt all federal funding to NPR and PBS. As I discussed in my breakdown of the EO, the two ...

Yesterday, the Senate voted to pass President Trump’s rescissions package, H.R.4, which would revoke the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s already-appropriated funding. Days of see-sawing and ...

I don’t think it would be too hyperbolic to say that, right now, public media is engaged in a fight for its life. Every week - and nearly every day - since President Trump’s second inauguration has ...

Over a year ago, we launched the Public Media Layoffs Tracker. At the time, tracking only reductions in force made sense: Public media entities cut jobs every single week between the beginning of the ...

Federal departments shuttering. Universities suing. American detainees sent to El Salvadorian prisons. With so many consequential events happening in the US right now, President Trump’s plan to ask ...

Today, President Trump is expected to ask Congress to rescind the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s federal funding, most of which is earmarked for supporting local public media stations for the ...

In the opening scene of the 1982 film “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise receive a distress signal while on a training mission with a cadet at the helm. A civilian ...

Earlier today, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s final CEO, Patricia Harrison, delivered her last remarks to the board, just hours before the corporation shut down. Here’s what she said: ...

Over a year ago, I began working on my very first published piece about public media. Writing for Current, I examined the financial statements of 75 randomly-chosen public radio and television ...

Last week, I heard something striking on my local NPR affiliate. They stated exactly how much money the station stood to lose if the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s funding were rescinded and ...

If you’ve been following Semipublic since the beginning (or at least, before last week), you probably already know why I originally started the newsletter, which was to analyze and discuss data about ...