Journalism

ARLINGTON, VA (August 2, 2023) – Sharon Percy Rockefeller, president and chief executive officer of WETA and President of NewsHour Productions, today announced Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, as the new moderator of Washington Week. The Atlantic will join NewsHour and WETA as an editorial partner on the show, to be rebranded as Washington Week with The Atlantic. Goldberg’s tenure as moderator will begin on Friday, August 11, 2023.

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).

WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 15, 2023) — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), building on its longtime commitment and funding to ensure trust in public media, announced today the selection of the Poynter Institute to develop the Editorial Integrity and Leadership Program 2.0. Fifty public media news editors, upholding the highest editorial standards, will receive leadership training to ensure they are well positioned to meet their communities’ information needs. 

Arlington, VA (November 16, 2022) – Sharon Rockefeller, President and CEO of WETA and President of NewsHour Productions, today named PBS NewsHour chief correspondent Amna Nawaz and chief Washington correspondent and PBS News Weekend anchor Geoff Bennett co-anchors of the nightly newscast. The PBS NewsHour, co-anchored by Nawaz and Bennett, will launch on Monday, January 2, 2023. Nawaz and Bennett succeed Judy Woodruff, who has solo-anchored PBS’s nightly news broadcast since 2016, prior to which she co-anchored it alongside the late Gwen Ifill.

ARLINGTON, VA (November 11, 2022) – Anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff today announces her intent to step aside from the PBS NewsHour anchor desk on Friday, December 30, 2022, and to begin work on a two-year project to understand better how the American people see their country and whether today’s deep political divisions can be healed. Woodruff will devote 2023 and 2024 to this national reporting project, "Judy Woodruff Presents: America at a Crossroads."

BOSTON (July 12, 2022)––International news program “The World” — the daily public radio show from GBH and PRX — will expand and sustain its coverage of the war in Ukraine, with the support of $205,000 in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the organizations announced today.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 14, 2022) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced a $500,000 grant to IndiJ Public Media, an independent non-profit news organization that owns ICT, formerly known as Indian Country Today. ICT began as the Lakota Times more than 40 years ago and has transformed into a digital news site and a national weekday broadcast covering Indigenous communities.

DALLAS, Texas (May 18, 2022) -- The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) will award the America Amplified engagement journalism initiative an additional $375,000 to help public media stations across the country ensure that American citizens have the facts they need to participate in local, state, and Congressional elections this fall. This grant brings the total amount awarded to America Amplified to more than $1.35 million.

BOSTON – April 7, 2022 — FRONTLINE, PBS’s flagship investigative documentary series, announced today the selection of the newest class of partners for its Local Journalism Initiative. The initiative, funded with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, supports high-impact local journalism in communities around the country.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 22, 2022) -- NPR is adding staff and resources to cover Russia’s aggression in Ukraine with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). CPB approved $500,000 in emergency funding to support NPR coverage in the region on Tuesday, as Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops to re-invade Ukraine’s Donbas region.