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Editor’s Note: Encyclo has not been regularly updated since August 2014, so information posted here is likely to be out of date and may be no longer accurate.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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April 19, 2024 / Andrew Deck

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April 17, 2024 / Andrew Deck

Newsweek is making generative AI a fixture in its newsroom — If you scroll down to the end of almost any article on Newsweek.com right now — past the headline, the article copy, several programmatic ads, and the author bio — you’ll find a short note. “To read how Newsweek ...

April 17, 2024 / Neel Dhanesha

Rumble Strip creator Erica Heilman on making independent audio and asking people about class — Erica Heilman has been making Rumble Strip since 2013, when she was in her 40s and feeling, she told me, “the foretaste of regret.” It is, on its surface, a podcast about life in Vermont, but it’s also so much more...

April 15, 2024 / Joshua Benton

PressPad, an attempt to bring some class diversity to posh British journalism, is shutting down — While it’s not true that all good things must come to an end — personally, I’m a fan of gravity — it’s true in digital media more often than you’d like. And it seems to be true with an interes...

April 15, 2024 / Richard Tofel

Is the Texas Tribune an example or an exception? A conversation with Evan Smith about earned income — Evan Smith, founding CEO of the Texas Tribune from 2009 to 2022, is a nonprofit pioneer, a brilliant editor and publisher, and a friend and fellow Yankees fan. These days, he is a senior adviser at Laurene Powell Jobs’...

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

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