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Philanthropies Pony Up $37M for Public Media

Philanthropic team says it wants to help protect at-risk public TV, radio stations around the US

(Newser) - With public funding to NPR and PBS in the Trump administration's crosshairs , a group of philanthropies has announced it's got nearly $37 million to help keep public media above water, per the Hill . According to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation , one of the organizations involved,...

NPR Losing Top Editor After Funding Cuts

Edith Chapin says her exit is unrelated

(Newser) - NPR now has two big challenges: Its top newsroom leader said Tuesday she is stepping down later this year, a move that comes just after Congress stripped federal funding from public media. However, Edith Chapin says her exit is unrelated to the funding cut, adding that she informed superiors...

Senate Delivers a Blow to Public Broadcasting

GOP claws back aid to CPB and foreign programs, with 2 dissensions

(Newser) - The Senate handed President Trump a major victory on spending overnight, agreeing to pull back $9 billion previously approved by Congress for public broadcasting and foreign aid. It marks the first major clawback—formally called rescission—of federal funding in decades. Most of the money, roughly $8 billion, is for...

Trump Wins House Vote to Cancel Billions in Funding

GOP narrowly pushes through cuts in foreign assistance, money for NPR, PBS

(Newser) - The House narrowly voted Thursday to give President Trump the authority to cancel billions of dollars in funding already approved for foreign aid and public broadcasting. It measure is part of the Trump administration's effort to codify a portion of the cuts proposed by the Elon Musk's Department...

Trump Moves to Claw Back $9.4B Approved by Congress

White House wants to make DOGE cuts to foreign aid, public broadcasting permanent

(Newser) - The White House sent what's known as a "rescission request" to Congress on Tuesday, seeking to claw back $9.4 billion in funding—mostly for foreign aid and public broadcasting— that lawmakers have already approved. The move seeks to enshrine the cuts made by Elon Musk's DOGE,...

NPR Sues White House Over 'Textbook Retaliation'

Broadcaster says Trump administration isn't being subtle about cutting off funding, 'comes as a wolf'

(Newser) - National Public Radio promised to fight a presidential executive order cutting off its federal funding, and now that's exactly what it's doing. The public broadcaster—which, along with PBS, was targeted by President Trump's executive order earlier this month accusing them of being "biased media"—...

Trump Moves to Cut Funding for 2 Media Outlets

No more federal cash for NPR, PBS, per new executive order against 'biased media'

(Newser) - President Trump has long made clear his disdain of the mainstream media, but now he's putting more teeth on that by closing the government's wallet on two major broadcasters. The commander in chief on Thursday added to his record-breaking executive-order blitz with yet another EO, this time directed...

Democrats Use Sarcasm to Defend NPR, PBS

Is Elmo a Communist? asks Democratic congressman at hearing on funding

(Newser) - Top executives from NPR and PBS sought to defend their organizations during a contentious hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday spearheaded by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. The congresswoman described the organizations as "radical left echo chambers" with "communist" programming, while the execs and Democratic defenders maintained they play...

FCC Chair Thanks Sheryl Crow for Ditching Her Tesla

Says more celebs should do the same to fund NPR

(Newser) - Consider Brendan Carr unimpressed. The FCC chair responded to Sheryl Crow's Tesla move—the singer sold off her EV and donated the proceeds to NPR in a rebuke to Tesla CEO and Trump adviser Elon Musk—with a sarcastic post on Musk's X social network Saturday, the Hill...

The Pentagon Kicks Out NBC, NYT, NPR, Politico

The move is part of a plan to rotate access for media outlets each year

(Newser) - Four major news outlets will no longer have highly coveted office space at the Pentagon after the Defense Department released an internal memo announcing it's giving their space to other outlets. CNN's Haley Britzky posted the memo on X that said NBC News, the New York Times, NPR,...

Marjorie Taylor Greene Has NPR in Her Sights
MTG Has NPR
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Nov 25, 2024 1:00 AM CST

MTG Has NPR in Her Sights

She threatens to slash federal funding as chair of House DOGE subcommittee

(Newser) - Marjorie Taylor Greene is no fan of NPR, and as chair of an as-yet-unformed House subcommittee that will work with the newly-created Department of Government Efficiency, she says she will look into cutting the public broadcaster's government funding. "We'll be looking at everything from government-funded media programs...

Post Boss Tried to Stop Scandal Story: NPR Reporter

New CEO wanted his paper to ignore accusations, too, David Folkenflik writes

(Newser) - An NPR reporter maintains that the incoming chief executive of the Washington Post tried to strike a deal that would keep allegations against him from appearing in an interview. Court filings in Britain accuse Will Lewis of trying to cover up illegal phone hacking at British publications owned by Rupert...

Suspended Editor Uri Berliner Resigns From NPR

He says he's being 'disparaged' by CEO Katherine Maher

(Newser) - NPR senior business editor Uri Berliner has resigned a day after NPR announced it had suspended him as a formal punishment for the scathing critique he penned about his employer . NPR had said Berliner received the formal rebuke because he had not received the required approval to write for another...

NPR Suspends Editor Who Issued Scathing Critique

Uri Berliner has received 'final warning'

(Newser) - The NPR editor who issued a scathing critique of his employer has now been suspended by the media outlet. NPR announced the move Tuesday, saying Uri Berliner was being "formally punished" for his essay with a five-day unpaid suspension that started Friday. Berliner's complaint that NPR has a...

NPR Editor Delivers Scathing Critique of His Employer

Uri Berliner sees a left-wing bias that is only getting worse

(Newser) - NPR is often accused of a left-wing bias by conservative critics, but the latest such broadside comes from within. Uri Berliner, a senior business editor who has been at NPR for 25 years, has written a scathing critique at the Free Press website. "People at every level of NPR...

Crossword Puzzle Guru Will Shortz Has a Stroke

'New York Times' puzzle editor and NPR figure is recovering

(Newser) - The nation's grandmaster of crossword puzzles delivered some unwelcome news to fans over the weekend: He's had a stroke. Will Shortz, the longtime crossword puzzle editor at the New York Times and a fixture of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday, made a recorded statement on the NPR show...

Longtime NPR Voice Bob Edwards Is Dead
An NPR Icon Is Gone
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Feb 12, 2024 11:50 AM CST

An NPR Icon Is Gone

Former 'Morning Edition' host Bob Edwards dies at 76

(Newser) - A familiar name—and voice—to listeners of NPR is gone. Bob Edwards, who hosted Morning Edition for more than two decades, has died at age 76, reports NBC News . No cause of death was immediately announced.
  • "He was Bob Edwards of Morning Edition for 24 and a half
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For NPR, Quitting Twitter Had Next to No Effect on Traffic

Web traffic dropped just 1% after April departure

(Newser) - NPR left Twitter back in April—when it was still called Twitter instead of X—and the media organization says its "Twexit" has only had a minimal effect on traffic to its website. According to a memo to staff seen by Neiman Reports , traffic fell by just 1% after...

Musk Makes 'Extraordinary Threat' to NPR

CEO warns he'll give media organization's Twitter handle to someone else if it doesn't start tweeting

(Newser) - NPR has stayed firm in not tweeting since Elon Musk's Twitter first labeled its account "state-affiliated media" last month, then "government-funded media." Those labels are now gone, but NPR has continued to stay silent online. Now, the news organization is reporting that Musk is threatening to...

Boycotts Worked: Twitter Drops Label That Drove NPR Away

The 'government-funded media' descriptor is no more

(Newser) - Twitter was apparently concerned enough by media outlets boycotting its platform that it's made a U-turn, dropping the "government-funded media" label that sent NPR , the CBC , and other outlets packing. The label is now missing from the accounts of NPR, the CBC, the BBC, and other outlets, while...

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