WQED Multimedia in Pittsburgh will lay off 19 staffers, the station announced Wednesday. The layoffs represent 35% of the station’s full- and part-time staff, CEO Jason Jedlinski told Current in an ...

A new streaming app that gives public TV stations more customization tools has launched in Washington, D.C., and is coming soon to at least nine other cities. The app, WETA+, was developed for WETA by ...

Tribal stations appear to have been spared from the loss of their CPB Community Service Grants as of Oct. 1. Before agreeing to support the rescission package that stripped $1.1 billion from CPB for ...

GBH in Boston announced Tuesday that it will lay off 13 employees who work on the history documentary series American Experience and will pause production of new broadcast episodes. In a statement, ...

In the meantime, public media’s leadership, employees and audience are all searching for answers. Which entities would be most affected if federal funding were cut? What areas would the rescission ...

In January of 1967, the Carnegie Commission on Educational Television published a report that forever changed broadcasting in the U.S. in two distinctive ways. First was the committee’s rebranding of ...

This essay first appeared on Transom and is republished here with permission. Intro from Transom: Why would two young philanthropists (and PhD scientists) want to fund independent media? Fascinating ...

Summers is one of the four women of color — three of them Black — who have taken over hosting duties at flagship NPR programs over the past year. Leila Fadel moved to Morning Edition in January 2022, ...

It is rare for everyone in public radio to agree on anything. In 2000, I was asked to put together a PRPD session on “The Truths of Public Radio.” That request followed several years of significant ...

Want to free up thousands of dollars in your budget, create an innovation fund and streamline your on-air promotions — all while improving your public service? It’s easy — just drop 70% of your ...

"This effort is the result of more than 200 people in public media coming together to identify the primary obstacles to anti-racist public media and create a vision for transformation." ...

Check out salaries for executives at stations in the top 25 broadcast markets and at national organizations.