6 d. ago Can NPR do without federal funding? Its CEO says she’s optimistic.

Can NPR do without federal funding? Its CEO says she’s optimistic.  The Washington Post

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3 w. ago Cuts to public media will smash budgets of some local radio stations

Congress voted to claw back federal funding to public media. Some of those hit hardest include community radio stations in areas that voted for the president.

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3 w. ago Community radio stations are collateral damage as Congress cuts NPR funding

Congress voted to claw back federal funding to public media. Some of those hit hardest include community radio stations in areas that voted for the president.

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3 w. ago Rural NPR stations ‘disappointed,’ determined to survive after rescission package eliminates federal funding

NPR member stations in rural areas insist they're sticking around, but things will get much more difficult, as President Donald Trump’s clawback package strips federal funding.

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3 w. ago Filmmaker Ken Burns on how cuts to funding for public media could affect Americans

Filmmaker Ken Burns tells NPR's Michel Martin about the role that federal funding has played in his documentary work and the potential impact of the loss of that funding on children's programming.

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3 w. ago Flimmaker Ken Burns: Public broadcasting is a 'purely American expression'

Filmmaker Ken Burns tells NPR's Michel Martin about the role that federal funding has played in his documentary work and the potential impact of the loss of that funding on children's programming.

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3 w. ago Filmmaker Ken Burns: Public broadcasting is a 'purely American expression'

Filmmaker Ken Burns tells NPR's Michel Martin about the role that federal funding has played in his documentary work and the potential impact of the loss of that funding on children's programming.

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3 w. ago Not 'honest' news organizations: White House defends yanking $9B ‘worth of crap’ in rescissions package

The rescissions package the Senate approved early Thursday pulls more than $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) that provides federal funding for NPR and PBS.

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3 w. ago NPR CEO warns staff 'tremendous amount of change' coming if federal funding yanked

Katherine Maher, NPR's CEO, warned during a meeting with staffers on Thursday that they would be going through "tremendous change" if federal funding goes away.

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3 w. ago NY Times compares defunding NPR to progressive ‘excesses’ of defund the police, abolish ICE movements

The New York Times likened the cutting of federal funding for liberal NPR and PBS to far-left calls to defund the police and abolish ICE in a new editorial.

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3 w. ago NYT draws parallels between calls to defund NPR and defund the police movement

The New York Times likened the cutting of federal funding for liberal NPR and PBS to far-left calls to defund the police and abolish ICE in a new editorial.

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4 w. ago How public broadcasting funding cuts would impact one rural Indiana station

As Congress debates whether to pull back all federal funds it has already committed to public broadcasting, NPR and PBS station officials in rural areas are watching closely.

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