The very first thing I heard upon landing in D.C. in March 2020 was Donizetti. The Flute Sonata in C, I think. Whatever it was, I took it as a good sign. It was just a standard afternoon selection on ...

In the last seven days, both the PBS Member station organizations serving Seattle-Tacoma and Yakima-Tri Cities, Wash., and the state of New Jersey announced severe service changes due to the end of ...

For decades, NPR has operated public radio’s content distribution backbone. Now, as federal funding ends, a feud is erupting in the sphere as a new coalition, backed by the Corporation for Public ...

In early July, at the behest of President Donald Trump, Congress approved a $9 billion rescission package that canceled $1.1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting. NPR CEO Katherine Maher ...

When I was a station manager, I had a set of questions I would ask staff who proposed an idea for a project. The first was the most important: “What is the need that this project is trying to meet?” ...

I think you can excuse public radio’s station managers if web traffic isn’t quite top of mind these days. Many are too busy fighting for their continued existence.

A new independent nonprofit will receive funding through 2030 for distribution of public radio content, CPB announced Friday. The nonprofit, Public Media Infrastructure, is led by a coalition of ...