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Good Luck Trying to Watch Al Jazeera America 23 Aug 2013 | 01:41 am
Josh Stearns Candace Clement August 22, 2013 Much excitement and fanfare heralded the debut of Al Jazeera America, but you may want to pause before you celebrate the arrival of this new journalisti...
CPB Reduces Aid to Longtime Grantees 27 Jun 2013 | 10:23 pm
Current CPB is reassessing its funding commitments to several grantees that provide specialized assistance and diverse programming to the public TV system.
All for One and One for All 8 May 2013 | 08:15 pm
Josh Stearns May 8, 2013 Imagine for a moment if 50 percent of America’s media was noncommercial. How would that change whose stories got told and which issues got debated? How would it shape access...
Low-Power Radio Is About to Make FM Hot Again 1 Mar 2013 | 08:29 pm
Wired Later this year, the FCC will begin distributing licenses to registered nonprofit organizations that want to start low-power FM radio stations. The goal is to dot the country with 100-watt tran...
Three Media Issues We Can't Ignore in 2013 8 Jan 2013 | 07:58 pm
Josh Stearns January 8, 2013 We’ve accomplished a lot in 2012, but when it comes to the fight for better media there is always more to do. Here are three critical issues we must tackle in the coming...
Beyond Big Bird 27 Nov 2012 | 08:41 pm
Josh Stearns November 27, 2012 During the presidential campaign, Big Bird became a convenient symbol in the fight to defend public broadcasting. But behind all those feathers is a diverse network of...
Puppet Power 6 Nov 2012 | 12:30 am
Josh Stearns November 5, 2012 "Power to the puppets!" The chant rang out Saturday over the National Mall in Washington, D.C., where roughly 1,000 people gathered to show their support for public med...
A Happy Union Between KCET and LinkTV 25 Oct 2012 | 10:09 pm
Josh Stearns October 25, 2012 When prominent Los Angeles public television station KCET split from PBS over the cost of membership dues and announced it would no longer carry PBS programming, many w...
What Does Public Media Mean to You? 20 Oct 2012 | 02:05 am
What Does Public Media Mean to You? Washington needs to know why we all care so much about public media. Tell us: What does public media mean to you? Tell Your Story
The Impact of Public Media: 'I Learned to Read and Count to 100' 11 Oct 2012 | 11:38 pm
Josh Stearns October 11, 2012 Public media reaches nearly every household in the United States, from sea to shining sea. This week, Americans stood up in record numbers in support of Big Bird, NPR a...
