Public media is at a crossroads. Let’s take a data-based look at what happens next.
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Expanding the Public Media Layoffs Tracker
Over a year ago, we launched the Public Media Layoffs Tracker. At the time, tracking only reductions in force made sense: Public media entities cut jobs every single week between the beginning of the measurement period - July 18th, or the s...
Public Media’s Fundraising Hiring Spiked in August
Over a year ago, the Rescissions Act of 2025 was signed into law, revoking two years of previously-appropriated federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. There were several predictions about how severely the cuts would af...
Introducing Adopt A Station's Community Impact Tags
Almost one year ago, the idea for Adopt A Station was born out of a group chat among former public media workers. Congress had just voted to rescind the next two years of public media’s federal funding and we were trying to figure out what...
Why is NPR Offering Buyouts?
NPR’s DC headquarters. Photo credit: ajay_suresh
Yesterday, NPR President and CEO Katherine Maher announced a buyout program for select newsroom staff. Despite recent large gifts totaling around $113 million to the network, NPR is looking...
Happy Birthday, Semipublic!
Exactly one year ago, I hit publish on the very first piece that appeared on this Substack. It was a companion piece to a much longer one that published via Current the very same day, where I compiled all the station financial documentation...
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