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The importance of Employee Resource Groups and how to create one at your station
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Employee Resource Groups can help to amplify underrepresented voices, promote education and break down barriers within your organization.
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Report looks at public media’s transformation into ‘frontline’ providers of local news
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An analysis by the Wyncote Foundation spotlights what’s working for news-driven stations.
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Pubcasters succeed in push for FCC to include nonbinary gender option on reporting form
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A coalition of public broadcasters called for the change when the commission reconsidered requiring annual employment reports from stations.
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House subcommittee proposes zeroing out pubmedia funding for FY27
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President Biden has proposed upping CPB’s FY27 appropriation to $595 million.
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Appeals court rejects defamation suit by right-wing journalist against NPR, Yahoo News
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Matthew Couch, founder of the news website D.C. Patriot, had spread conspiracy theories about the 2016 murder of Democratic National Committee employee Seth Rich.
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Unions call for immediate removal of Chicago Public Media CEO
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96% of participating union members voted no confidence in the outgoing CEO.
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CPB backs new journalism desk for Alaska’s stations
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The two-year grant funds four new reporter positions and three shared editors.
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PBS board approves $373M budget, applauds contract extension for CEO Paula Kerger
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Paula Kerger’s decision to continue leading PBS “will cement, for a very long time to come, her status as the longest serving president of PBS,” said Board Chair Larry Irving.
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Growing costs, falling sponsorship fuel wave of layoffs in pubmedia
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Current has tracked more than 400 jobs lost to layoffs or buyouts since March 2023, including at operations as different as NPR, Chicago Public Media, GBH in Boston and WBHM in Birmingham, Ala.
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WVPB unable to renew grant after apparently violating guidelines
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The board chair of the WVPB Foundation said he believes that publicly naming a funder during a meeting cost the station the chance to apply for a three-year grant.
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PBS lays off 24 staffers, cuts vacant positions
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“It’s never easy to say goodbye to colleagues and friends, but we feel confident that this will position us well for the future,” said PBS President Paula Kerger in a staff memo.
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New Wisconsin Public Radio station honors late Executive Director Gene Purcell
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WEPP, which will begin broadcasting Thursday on 90.7 FM in Rice Lake, Wis., gets its call letters from Purcell’s given name, Eugene Patrick Purcell.
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SAG-AFTRA files unfair labor practice charge against Chicago Public Media
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SAG-AFTRA claims CPM has “failed and refused to provide information demanded” by the union.
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House subcommittee recommends more funding for Next Generation Warning System
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If approved, it would be the third large infusion of funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency–backed program.
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CPB’s first post-pandemic analysis of stations finds stagnating radio revenue, drop in TV income
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The latest State of the System report was shared during the Public Media Business Association’s annual conference.
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Louisville Public Media lays off eight staff amid budget shortfall
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The station is facing a budget deficit of more than $750,000.
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Kwame Alexander created a poem about public media with help from ‘Viewers Like You’
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“A human network / A community / coming together in unity / generations engaged / together.”
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Nebraska Public Media receives donation of online news sites
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NPM is engaging with freelance writers who have covered arts and culture in the Omaha area to resume publishing online content later this summer, according to CCO Nancy Finken.
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San Francisco’s KQED eliminates 34 positions
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The station is also ending its podcast “Rightnowish.”
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Boston’s GBH lays off 31 staff due to $7M budget gap
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GBH is also suspending the shows “Greater Boston,” “Talking Politics” and “Basic Black” but plans to “reinvent” them as digital-first programs, said CEO Susan Goldberg.