But the first possible hurdle for CPB funding in the new administration could come fairly soon.

The community media center received a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award in recognition of its Next Gen youth program.

The new national program, “1A,” debuts Jan. 2.

Colleagues and friends also remember Ifill, who died Monday at 61, as a "tough, smart reporter."

The two stations will maintain independence.

DuBose produced or directed more than 60 national programs that aired on PBS.

The show’s reporters will contribute to other NPR programs as well.

“There should be an element of suspense. There should be a thing that’s kind of hanging that we’re hoping either succeeds or fails.”

Gwen Ifill died Monday after several months of cancer treatment, according to WETA President Sharon Rockefeller.

The Gold Award went to “Mariya,” a personal narrative by writer Mariya Karimjee from Radiotopia podcast The Heart.

“How can we do the job of reporting truth without being dismissed as polemicists?” asked moderator Bob Garfield.

Speaking in the aftermath of the election, Rehm urged public radio to listen “better and harder to those to whom we have never listened before.”

Also, public TV executive Dick Pryor takes over as g.m. of KGOU in Norman, Okla., Monday.

The public radio reporter tells the back story behind her new biography about the McDonald’s heiress and NPR benefactor.