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Editor’s Note: Encyclo has not been regularly updated since August 2014, so information posted here is likely to be out of date and may be no longer accurate.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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March 20, 2023 / Joshua Benton

Negative words in news headlines generate more clicks — but sad words are more effective than angry or scary ones — Why is all the news so negative? Maybe it’s because journalists are naturally drawn to aberrations — outliers from the norm — and those tend to be more bad than good. After all, a flight landing safely isn̵...

March 16, 2023 / Laura Hazard Owen

Amazon calls it quits on newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print — It doesn’t matter whether they’re for your Kindle or in print — starting this week, Amazon is no longer selling newspaper and magazine subscriptions. Publishers were alerted to the coming change in Decembe...

March 16, 2023 / Marek Bekerman

The Gary Lineker tweet scandal shows how the BBC has struggled to adapt to the social media age — The BBC’s highest-paid presenter, Gary Lineker, will soon be back in action after being briefly suspended for what the broadcaster described as a breach of its impartiality guidelines. The former soccer player’...

March 15, 2023 / Leon Yin, The Markup

Journalists should be looking for undocumented APIs. Here’s how to start. — At The Markup, we build our own datasets, a lot. It’s one of the core tenets of our newsroom, and how we test our hypothesis-driven journalism. One way we do that is by finding and using undocumented APIs (or appli...

March 14, 2023 / Hanaa' Tameez

The Prison Newspaper Directory finds that the number of prison-based papers is growing — The local newspaper industry has seen better days (though not so much in my lifetime). One growth spot, however, is where you might not expect it: Behind bars. According to the newly launched Prison Newspaper Directory b...

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