Public media, including the Public Broadcasting System, finds itself in uncharted waters in the aftermath of the almost complete shutdown of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting on October 1. In ...

Sunday’s premiere of Ken Burns’ new PBS series “The American Revolution” doubles as an attention-grabbing statement, months after President Donald Trump succeeded in stripping away all federal funding ...

Washington, DC, November 3, 2025 — A MORE PERFECT UNION: INSPIRING CIVIC & CIVIL CONVERSATIONS ACROSS AMERICA, a new one-hour special exploring the themes of liberty, equality, and democracy, will ...

The cancellation was announced on 'PBS NewsHour' two days prior ...

“I’m most worried about the most vulnerable stations, so I have spent a fair amount of time working with a few others and some key foundations to try to put a corpus of money together that will give ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Community-supported media has had a tough year with the defunding of the Corp. for Public Broadcasting, created by ...

PBS' NewsHour West program, produced in partnership with Arizona State University, aired its final episode on Dec. 19. PBS and its affiliate WETA stated the show ended because ASU decided not to renew ...

ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication will not renew its contract with PBS News Hour West, ending a reporting hub that covered the western U.S. and updated the nightly news ...

In the wake of the Trump administration’s defunding of public broadcasting, local stations PBS SoCal (KOCE and KCET) are planning a telethon next week from the PBS outfit’s Burbank Studios home. “We ...