System/Policy
CPB backs new journalism desk for Alaska’s stations
The two-year grant funds four new reporter positions and three shared editors.PBS board approves $373M budget, applauds contract extension for CEO Paula Kerger
Paula Kerger’s decision to continue leading PBS “will cement, for a very long time to come, her status as the longest serving ...Growing costs, falling sponsorship fuel wave of layoffs in pubmedia
Current has tracked more than 400 jobs lost to layoffs or buyouts since March 2023, including at operations as different as NPR, ...WVPB unable to renew grant after apparently violating guidelines
The board chair of the WVPB Foundation said he believes that publicly naming a funder during a meeting cost the station the ...PBS lays off 24 staffers, cuts vacant positions
“It’s never easy to say goodbye to colleagues and friends, but we feel confident that this will position us well for the ...New Wisconsin Public Radio station honors late Executive Director Gene Purcell
WEPP, which will begin broadcasting Thursday on 90.7 FM in Rice Lake, Wis., gets its call letters from Purcell’s given name, Eugene ...SAG-AFTRA files unfair labor practice charge against Chicago Public Media
SAG-AFTRA claims CPM has “failed and refused to provide information demanded" by the union.House subcommittee recommends more funding for Next Generation Warning System
If approved, it would be the third large infusion of funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency–backed program.CPB’s first post-pandemic analysis of stations finds stagnating radio revenue, drop in TV income
The latest State of the System report was shared during the Public Media Business Association’s annual conference.Louisville Public Media lays off eight staff amid budget shortfall
The station is facing a budget deficit of more than $750,000.Kwame Alexander created a poem about public media with help from ‘Viewers Like You’
“A human network / A community / coming together in unity / generations engaged / together.”Nebraska Public Media receives donation of online news sites
NPM is engaging with freelance writers who have covered arts and culture in the Omaha area to resume publishing online content later ...San Francisco’s KQED eliminates 34 positions
The station is also ending its podcast "Rightnowish."Boston’s GBH lays off 31 staff due to $7M budget gap
GBH is also suspending the shows "Greater Boston," "Talking Politics" and "Basic Black" but plans to “reinvent” them as digital-first programs, said ...Wife of lawmaker critical of Arkansas PBS joins network’s governing board
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced May 6 she had appointed Maria Sullivan to the Arkansas Educational Television Commission.
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