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  • CPB Board of Directors to Meet on Tuesday, December 9 and Wednesday, December 10, 2025

    WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 5, 2025) -- The CPB Board of Directors will meet on Tuesday, December 9, and Wednesday, December 10, 2025. Public session will be from 09:30 – 09:45 am ET on Tuesday, December 9. On the draft agenda:

  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting Awards $4 Million to Launch Rural News and Information Services

    Washington, D.C. (December 4, 2025) — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) today announced $4.4 million in grants to establish Rural News and Information Services in eight states. The funding supports public media organizations focused on expanding reporting in rural America. The initiative will strengthen coverage of local issues, elevate community voices, and produce audience-informed content that reflects the diverse experiences of rural life across the United States.

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

    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.

  • CPB Board of Directors to Meet on Thursday, November 20, 2025

    WASHINGTON, D.C. (November 18, 2025) -- The CPB Board of Directors will meet in a telephonic meeting on Thursday, November 20, 2025. Public session will be from 1:00 – 1:15 pm and 3:45 – 4:00 pm ET. On the draft agenda:

  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting Prevails in Litigation Brought by NPR

    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.

  • CPB Names Donna Joe as Executive Vice President and General Counsel

    Washington, D.C. (November 12, 2025) — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that Donna Joe has been promoted to Executive Vice President and General Counsel, succeeding Evan Slavitt who joined CPB in 2024 and has accepted a new position with the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.

  • CPB Board of Directors to Meet on Monday, November 10, 2025

    WASHINGTON, D.C. (November 10, 2025) -- The CPB Board of Directors will meet in executive session on Monday, November 10, 2025 at 3:00pm ET to discuss legal and contractual matters.

  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting Invests $750,000 in PMJA’s Editor Corps to Strengthen Local Newsrooms

    WASHINGTON, D.C. (November 5, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has awarded an additional $750,000 for a four-year grant to the Public Media Journalists Association (PMJA) to support its Editor Corps program, a vital initiative that provides short-term editorial assistance to public media newsrooms across the country. This new funding builds on the two-year, $200,000 grant CPB announced earlier this year in support of the PMJA Editor Corps, securing the service through 2031.

  • CPB Continues to Protect the Independence of Public Media

    Washington, D.C. (October 31, 2025) – Patricia Harrison, president and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) issued the following system message today:

    As CPB enters the final phase of our winddown, our remaining staff continues to work 24/7, under extraordinary circumstances on behalf of the public media system, concluding new music rights agreements to help stations, closing grants, and applying funds balances where they are most needed through new grants.

  • CPB Board of Directors to Meet on Monday, November 3, 2025

    WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 31, 2025) -- The CPB Board of Directors will meet in a special telephonic meeting on Monday, November 3, 2025. Public session will be from 10:30 – 10:45 am ET. On the draft agenda: