Through the progressive advocacy website MoveOn.org, more than 769,000 Web users have sent messages to Congress backing pubcasting: “Congress must save NPR, ...

The proposed cuts to CPB funding, if enacted, could trigger “a spiral of death for public broadcasting,” said KCPT President Bill Reed ...

A coalition of citizen groups including Common Cause and Free Press has urged CPB Chairman Ken Tomlinson to postpone the board’s vote ...

The House Appropriations Committee approved a bill last night that cuts pubcasting’s total 2006 funding by more than 40 percent. It would ...

“The Bush administration is introducing a political agenda to public broadcasting,” writes columnist Molly Ivins. “They are using the lame pretext that ...

Stepping in where the Ready to Learn program may be cutting back, CPB has allotted up to $3 million for grants to ...

Columnist Tom Teepen makes the case for supporting public broadcasting: “Public TV and radio are the anti-crudity media, refuges from the wasteland, ...

Rhode Island’s attorney general will continue investigating Boston University’s management of its Rhode Island stations, reports the Boston Globe, despite the university’s decision not ...

Investigators from CPB’s Inspector General’s Office are examining payments that the corporation made to two Republican lobbyists who provided “strategic advice” on ...

NPR is “a better outfit than the people who are running public radio,” says Bob Edwards in the Fairbanks News-Miner. (Via Romenesko.)

The New York Times profiles WNYC’s Radio Rookies program as a new batch of the teen-reported pieces starts airing on the New York station. ...

Boston University and WBUR-FM have decided not to sell their pubradio stations in Rhode Island. Coverage in the Providence Journal.

PBS’s revised editorial policy, which the PBS Board formally adopted today, includes a new definition of journalistic objectivity that emphasizes transparency over ...

Marketplace host David Brown will leave the show July 29 to end his Texas-to-Cali commute, marry and have children. Kai Ryssdal will leave Marketplace ...

New York Times writer Frank Rich referenced the CPB controversy in last Sunday’s column, which drew parallels between the Watergate era and ...