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CPB provides $1.9M to bolster editorial oversight at NPR
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The grant follows NPR’s earlier plan to create a “Backstop” team to review news reporting.
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The grant follows NPR’s earlier plan to create a “Backstop” team to review news reporting.
A $100,000 grant from Press Forward will help Radio Catskill in New York hire at least one additional reporter.
Last year’s letter was signed by a bipartisan group of 132 members of the House.
Organizers delivered petitions to members of Congress, bearing 660,000 signatures gathered online to save CPB funding.
The petitions contain more than 660,000 signatures of public broadcasting supporters.
PBS’s Beth Hoppe said her team is eyeing other American dramas.
Small and midsize stations must be especially creative in developing ways to engage and grow their pools of major donors.
Running for the first 100 days of the Trump presidency, the show wants to break down stereotypes and misperceptions by soliciting personal stories, not rants, from listeners across the country.
Future appropriations are also at risk.
But the governor indicated he expects the state-run network to transition to university oversight.
Among the report’s findings is that social platforms — such as church services, hot-dog wagons and food pantries — are as important as social media for the future of public media.
The study by the Classical Music Rising initiative identifies a need for training and more diverse staffing.