SPONSORED A Dozen Donkeys and a Dream is a good tagline for the 56-minute film that transports viewers back in time 100 years. The film visits an era of merchant pack trains with equines. “When there ...

And yet there was truth in the promise of “something completely different,” delivered each week by the Pythons, Bill Moyers, Fred Rogers, Great Performances, Austin City Limits, Frontline, Car Talk, ...

“While we have been diligent in raising additional funds while simultaneously economizing where we can, this funding loss is just too big to absorb without adjusting station operations—just as so many ...

A version of this commentary was first published in the author’s newsletter, and this edited version is published with permission. Now that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has announced that ...

PBS North Carolina announced Tuesday that it will offer voluntary buyouts to staff due to an anticipated revenue shortfall caused by the loss of federal funding. “We did not create this—it was ...

Alaska Public Media promoted Linda Wei to COO and SVP of content. She previously worked for Nashville PBS from 2003–18, her highest position being director of digital strategies. Her first job in ...

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 ...

A colleague shared with me a photo of a Post-it note with the words “Become Empathy Machines!” scrawled on it, taken at the Third Coast International Audio Festival in Chicago on Nov. 4, 2016. [1] It ...

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 article was first published by the Arkansas Advocate and is republished here under a Creative Commons license. A proposal to abolish the boards that oversee public libraries and educational ...