WQED Announces Layoffs After Federal Government Approves Cuts to Public Broadcast Funds

What’s Being Lost in the Documentary Space As Congress Defunds Public Media

Congress’s defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will mean roughly $9 million annually will no longer go to indie docs.

Pompous, Ridiculous! Public Media Poobahs CRY and Quote Shakespeare Over Defunding

Unbelievable. Kudos to Chuck Ross at the Washington Free Beacon for posting some pompous and ridiculous audio from a recent meeting of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting board after Congress rescinded CPB funding amounting to $1.1 billion. The CPB board members were crying and comparing themselves to military heroes in Shakespeare plays and the movies.  The defunding may be temporary -- PBS and NPR folks are still lobbying Congress to put f…

WQED announces layoffs after federal government approves cuts to public broadcast funds

19 employees lost their jobs less than two weeks after the cuts to funding were approved.

Congress rescinds previously approved funding for public media

Congress passed a bill July 17 that claws back $1.1 billion in previously approved funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for fiscal years 2026-27.

WQED lays off 19 employees following federal funding cuts for public radio

Less than two weeks after Congress passed sweeping spending cuts that targeted public broadcasting, WQED — one of the oldest public television stations...

No Choice But a New Era - The Laurel | "Fostering cooperation among legislative newspapermen (and women, and broadcast journalists, and bloggers, and media junkies)."

It may be just our imagination, but it sounds like there have been a lot more pleas for donations in the last two weeks from Connecticut Public Media and National Public Radio. It would make sense coming less than a month after Congress cut all funding for public media from the federal budget. A total of $1.1 billion. Former Journal Inquirer editor Chris Powell has long argued that government funding for public media is a multi-edged sword and i…