The Sundance Documentary Fund, One World US, Line TV and New California Media are grantees in the Ford Foundation’s $50 million public-media ...

Salon’s Eric Boehlert sizes up CPB’s push for balance and Ken Tomlinson pens an op-ed for the Washington Times.

Aaron Barnhart of TV Barn outlines why the ruckus over public broadcasting is overblown.

The Ford Foundation is spending $50 million over five years on public media grants, including $10M to PBS and $7.5M to NPR, ...

In the June edition of pubTV’s In the Life, the lesbian moms who were game enough to pretend to be talking to a cartoon ...

We’ve posted the text of the resolution concerning CPB that NPR members approved in a straw poll last week at their annual ...

On the Media responds to the Wall Street Journal‘s critique of the show with a brief note and links to reports referenced in the op-ed.

Blogger Andy Carvin points out that Open Source, Christopher Lydon’s new talk show, will incorporate the new idea of “mobcasting” into a companion website.

A large article in The Nation assesses NPR and finds it guilty of excessively safe and stodgy journalism. Garrison Keillor discusses his wide-ranging tastes ...

In the Wall Street Journal, Jacob Laksin of the conservative Center for the Study of Popular Culture argues that NPR’s On the Media is “in thrall ...

If Newt Gingrich had succeeded in privatizing public broadcasting, PBS wouldn’t be in the situation it’s in today, writes Jonathan Chait in ...

The New York Times editorial board weighs in on politicization of public broadcasting.

Public radio producer Benjamen Walker defends the Public Radio Exchange against a rival site: “ELITIST???? Man, I want to punch that guy ...

Showtime has greenlit a TV version of This American Life. The public radio show has already crossed over to Hollywood with a Warner Bros. ...

A Seattle Times scribe urges the city’s public schools district not to sell its noncommercial radio station, a popular dance-music outlet: “Selling irreplaceable assets ...