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Nine pubcasters receive $100,000 Press Forward grants
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The funding initiative awarded a total of $20 million to 205 news outlets.
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The funding initiative awarded a total of $20 million to 205 news outlets.
The June through August 2024 period was, at best, sluggish for station fundraising across several key performance indicators compared to the same period in 2023.
The petition was filed by a friends group that had bid to run the joint licensee.
Didi Schanche becomes the network’s chief international editor.
Grants are supporting a digitization project involving stations in the states and the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.
NPR was incorporated Feb. 26, 1970, marking a new stage in the growth of a public media system rooted in education.
CPB has asked the Department of Homeland Security to set aside funds for public broadcasting emergency communications.
Hubbard has been serving as interim director since 2019.
When racist radio host Rush Limbaugh gets a Presidential Medal of Freedom and a standing ovation in Congress, Current’s executive director is worried that this year’s lobbying effort may not be enough to save federal funding for public broadcasting.
Vic Vela, a journalist and recovering drug addict, hosts Colorado Public Radio’s “Back From Broken.”
Four stations in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana will form the collaborative newsroom.