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Editor’s Note: Encyclo has not been regularly updated since August 2014, so information posted here is likely to be out of date and may be no longer accurate. It’s best used as a snapshot of the media landscape at that point in time.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is an organization that distributes the federal government’s money to public media organizations.

Founded in 1967, CPB is the main funding source for more than 1,000 public radio and television stations. Its funding supports well-known PBS, NPR, and PRI shows, including PBS NewsHour, Frontline, All Things Considered, and Marketplace.

CPB is also a funding source for future-of-journalism experiments and collaborative projects, like NPR’s Project Argo, which received $2 million from CPB, and Localore, a series of local multimedia projects that received $1.25 million from CPB. NPR’s Code Switch and a number of multi-station Local Journalism Centers have also been funded by CPB.

Peers, allies, & competitors:

PBS, NPR, Public Radio International, Knight Foundation

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A second lawsuit against the Des Moines Register may be frivolous — but it raises media trust issues that aren’t going away any time soon — Last month, Donald Trump sued the Des Moines Register and established pollster J. Ann Selzer for the epically off Iowa Poll predicting a Kamala Harris win in the state, ringing another warning bell for the incumbent pres...

Jan. 13, 2025 / Sarah Scire

The L.A. Times sees subscriber bump during wildfire coverage, despite removing paywall — The wildfires in Los Angeles have killed at least 24 people and destroyed more than 12,000 homes and other structures in the last week. And it’s not over yet. Firefighters struggling to contain the Eaton, Palisades...

Jan. 13, 2025 / Hanaa' Tameez

Beehiiv is the latest platform to try to lure independent journalists with perks — Seamus Hughes launched his publication Court Watch on Substack in 2022, covering interesting and overlooked court records. He chose Substack because it was easy to use. As a freelancer, he didn’t want to spend time and...

Jan. 9, 2025 / Joshua Benton

That time Rupert Murdoch endorsed Jimmy Carter (no, really) — It looks like some sort of mistake, a bizarre multi-paragraph typo: The New York Post endorsing Jimmy Carter, less than an inch below a masthead that proclaims “RUPERT MURDOCH, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief.”...

Jan. 9, 2025 / Neel Dhanesha

GBH tried to sell the home of a legendary radio station. It kicked off a proxy war for the soul of audio. — One day last October, Jay Allison received an email from an employee at CAI, the radio station he heads in the Cape Cod village of Woods Hole, Massachusetts. There was a real-estate agent showing someone around the stati...

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Primary author: Sarah Darville. Main text last updated: July 12, 2015.

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