Strengthening Public Media: Why Congress Should Match the President’s Budget Request

The President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget proposal to Congress recommends an increase in public media funding, signaling an important step toward strengthening local public
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How Vermont Public Provided Lifesaving Information Amid Historic Floods

March 7, 2024 · Downtown Montpelier on July 11. (Mike Dougherty) When historic, catastrophic flash and river flooding ravaged communities across the state, Vermonters turned to Vermont Public for
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How Federal Funding Cuts Would Devastate Local Public Media

November 1, 2023 · In response to the fiscal year (FY) 2024 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (Labor-HHS-Education) appropriations bill’s proposal to eliminate federal funding for the Corporation
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How Public TV Stations Supported Summer Learning

August 19, 2021 · Throughout the pandemic, public media stations in all 50 states and U.S. territories have stepped up to provide at-home learning services for pre-K through 12th
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Public Media’s Brightest Moments of 2020

December 17, 2020 · As 2020 ends, we look back on public media’s brightest moments throughout the year. Public Media Stations Adjust to Safely Serve Their Communities In response
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House Appropriations Committee Proposes Increased Public Media Funding

July 15, 2020 · This week, the House Appropriations Committee approved increased federal funding for public media as part of their fiscal year (FY) 2021 annual spending bills. House
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WUWM Honors a Colleague and Supports New Broadcast Journalists

October 11, 2018 · At WUWM 89.7 FM – Milwaukee’s NPR, we are dedicated to promoting local journalism that serves our community. One way we do this is through
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MontanaPBS Helps Connect Rural Educators

September 14, 2018 · In 2017, MontanaPBS was one of five public television stations across the United States selected to participate in the PBS Teacher Community Program (TCP). This
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LPB: Sparking Early STEM Learning for Baton Rouge’s Children

June 5, 2018 · Teaming up with a Local Partner to Make a Difference Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB) is sparking early STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) learning in
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Class of 2025: How Federal Funding Fuels Creative Journalism

March 5, 2018 · In 2012, Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber signed a law setting a goal for the state to reach a 100 percent high school graduation rate by
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A Beautiful Day to Honor Fred Rogers

April 21, 2016 · Neighbors, April 29, 2016 is going to be a beautiful day in the neighborhood! For the third year in a row, we are putting on
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