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NPR Offers Buyouts, Restructures Newsroom to Tackle Revenue Decline

The moves target a projected shortfall tied to a $15 million drop in station fees plus weaker sponsorship.

CPB Board Votes to Dissolve After Defunding, Beginning Final Wind-Down

CPB Leader Pressed NPR’s Katherine Maher to Resign Over Bias Concerns, Reports Say

John Oliver Auction Raises $1.54 Million for Public Media as Bob Ross Painting Sets Record

Bob Ross Painting Tops $1 Million in John Oliver Auction to Back Public Media

WNET to End NJ PBS Management, Putting New Jersey’s Public TV in Jeopardy After June 2026

Ari Shapiro Leaving NPR After 25 Years, Final ‘All Things Considered’ on Sept. 26

CPB to Close by September, Local Stations Brace While NPR and PBS Remain On Air

Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Shut Down Following $1.1 Billion Funding Cut

Congress Votes to Claw Back $1.1 Billion From Public Broadcasting

Senate Votes to Strip $1.1 Billion From Public Media Funding

Sesame Workshop Disavows Viral Fake Elmo Post as Public Media Funding Cuts Face Legal Pushback