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Corporation for Public Broadcasting Extends Support for the Mountain West News Bureau

Additional Funding Will Strengthen Local Journalism in the Region Through 2028

Washington, D.C. (November 25, 2025) — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) today announced an additional $507,000 investment in the Mountain West News Bureau (MWNB), extending the regional journalism collaboration through June 30, 2028, and enabling the addition of a new Digital Editor to strengthen its multi-platform reporting. This brings CPB’s total support for the project to more than $1 million.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Prevails in Litigation Brought by NPR

Settlement Secures Interconnection Innovation and Affirms Independence

Washington, D.C. (November 17, 2025) — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) today announced a settlement with National Public Radio (NPR) in the lawsuit NPR filed to block CPB’s award of interconnection funding to Public Media Infrastructure (PMI). PMI — a coalition of public media organizations — was selected through a competitive process last summer. NPR’s suit, filed in the U.S.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Awards $1.16 Million to Support Upper Midwest Regional Journalism Collaboration

Grant supports Minnesota Public Radio-led newsroom to strengthen reporting and collaboration across the region.

Washington, D.C. (October 30, 2025) — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) today announced a grant of $1,156,279 to establish the Upper Midwest Newsroom, a regional journalism collaboration led by Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) with partners Prairie Public Broadcasting (North Dakota), South Dakota Public Broadcasting (SDPB), and Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR).

CPB Awards $1.9 Million to NPR for Editorial Enhancement

Funding provides increased oversight to ensure objective, balanced, transparent, fact-based journalism

WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 18, 2024) -- The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has awarded a $1.9 million grant to NPR to help further strengthen its editorial operations and meet the challenges of producing 24/7 news content on multiple platforms that consistently adheres to the highest standards of editorial integrity – accuracy, fairness, balance, objectivity, and transparency, and the obligation to include diverse viewpoints.

CPB Awards Up to $1.37 Million to 4 More Public Media Stations to Improve Emergency Alerting

Stations in Missouri, Indiana, and Alaska Get Next Generation Warning System Grants

WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2024) – Public media stations KMOS PBS (Missouri), PBS Fort Wayne (Indiana), and KTOO Public Media and Kodiak Public Broadcasting/KMXT-FM (both Alaska), have been awarded a total of up to $1.37 million from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to upgrade their equipment to provide enhanced emergency alerting. CPB has awarded 17 grants to date through the first round of funding for the Next Generation Warning System (NGWS) grant program, funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

CPB Awards $936,000 Grant to Fund Alaska Desk Journalism Collaboration

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 17, 2024) -- The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has awarded a $936,000 grant to Alaska Public Media to lead the Alaska Desk, a statewide collaboration among public media stations, designed to strengthen and expand their local news services, particularly for rural communities.

With CPB Support, PMJA Editor Corps Pushes for Sustainability

Public Media Journalists Association receives $100,000 grant from CPB

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS (June 22, 2023) – The Public Media Journalists Association (PMJA) Editor Corps, which provides critical short-term editing help to local public media newsrooms, will resume service as it implements a sustainability plan under a two-year, $100,000 grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).

CPB Funds $1.3 Million Expansion of Public Radio Music Format for Young Audiences

Radio Milwaukee, WJSU, and Minnesota Public Radio to localize the Urban Alternative

WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 14, 2021) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced grants totaling $1.3 million for three public radio stations to implement the Urban Alternative format to connect with young, multicultural audiences. The grants to Radio Milwaukee, WJSU (Jackson, MS), and Minnesota Public Radio will support transitions to locally customized formats using local and national Hip Hop and R&B. Jacquie Gales Webb, CPB Vice President, Radio, announced the grants today at the virtual Public Radio Program Directors Conference.

StoryCorps Announces 2021 One Small Step Communities, Expanding to Six New Cities to Foster Conversations Across American Political Divides

Public Media Stations Will Broaden StoryCorps’ Nationwide Initiative to Build Connection Despite Political Differences

Stations Selected by StoryCorps to Take Part:
Alaska Public Media, Anchorage, AK
High Plains Public Radio, Garden City, KS, and Amarillo, TX
KOSU, Oklahoma City, OK
KUNR, Reno, NV
Valley Public Media, Clovis, CA
Vermont Public Radio, Colchester, VT
 

CPB Funds COVID-19 PSAs for Tribal and HBCU Public Radio Stations

Native Public Media, KTSU to lead campaigns to reach vulnerable communities

WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 8, 2021) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has awarded more than $300,000 to Native Public Media and to KTSU-FM, a public radio station licensed to a Historically Black College and University (HBCU), to coordinate COVID-19 public outreach campaigns to 51 public radio stations serving Native and Black communities. The campaigns, airing on 36 tribal stations and 15 stations licensed to HBCUs, will provide trusted, life-saving information to populations that have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic.