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Nathan Heffel and Grace Hood rehearse their Colorado Public Radio public affairs program in Centennial, Colo., in 2017. Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images

July 17, 2025

Clawback of $1.1B for PBS and NPR puts rural stations at risk – and threatens a vital source of journalism

Allison Perlman, University of California, Irvine and Josh Shepperd, University of Colorado Boulder

Public broadcasting has long been a target of conservative Republicans.

Cast members of the children’s television show ‘Sesame Street’ pose with Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Grover, Ernie, Bert and Oscar the Grouch in 1969. Hulton Archive/Getty Images

May 2, 2025

Trump and many GOP lawmakers want to end all funding for NPR and PBS − unraveling a US public media system that took a century to build

Josh Shepperd, University of Colorado Boulder

The precursors of today’s public media programs consisted of professors giving lectures about history and finance.

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