In recent years, there has been attention and worries about how reading has changed among kids. Those concerns include the nature of what kids are reading and how many fewer books are part of their education diet. A new cover story in The Atlantic is ca...

California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and 11 other state attorneys general expressed concern that the industry-reshaping deal could spell doom for movie theaters.

A Judicial Coup Against Turkey's Main Opposition Party

Three Colorado stations signed on to a lawsuit that challenged the Trump administration’s defunding of NPR and PBS. It’s too late to recover lost funds, but their court victory sets an important prece...

The fund “has a general interest mission to defend freedom of opinion and expression in France,” and protect editorial independence

The fund “has a general interest mission to defend freedom of opinion and expression in France,” and protect editorial independence

The Post's financial struggles predate Lewis' tenure, but have been compounded by a series of unforced errors over the past two years.

The parent organization of NPR and PBS, already defunded, is shutting down—and claims that’s for the best. But there are dangers ahead.

“This is a nut that no one else in the country has cracked — how to translate what nonprofit newsrooms are doing for commercial TV.”

In this episode of then & now, guest host Dr. Ben Zdencanovic welcomes Professor Josh Shepperd, Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and Director of the Libra...

The Bay Area station is cutting 15% of its staff and bracing for the loss of federal support — a sign, experts say, of deeper problems in U.S. public media’s fragile funding model.

Public TV stations will be “forced to make hard decisions in the weeks and months ahead,” PBS CEO Paula Kerger said Thursday, after the Senate approved a bill canceling all the federal funding for the...

"They have to have what it takes to succeed independently, but not if it relies on old structures," one expert told Newsweek.

This is a coordinated, authoritarian attempt to silence dissent and dismantle the public good,” said Our Revolution.

Government-backed institutions sometimes stand up more strongly to authoritarianism than their commercial counterparts.

Senate Democrats warn Trump plan to wipe out public broadcasting funding will shut down stations, eliminate essential services. But House GOP scheduled to vote to clawback $1.1 billion next week.

Donald Trump signed an executive order eliminating the critical news source.

A Call for Constructive Engagement

Does it matter who funds and owns the media? Alan and Lionel are joined by professor and author Rodney Benson to discuss

The head of the federal Department of Transportation promised on Thursday to take away control from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

We need public media more than ever—it’s too precious to let Trump defund it. But to live up to its democratic promise, we must support public media to serve our needs.