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Editor’s Note: Encyclo has not been regularly updated since August 2014, so information posted here is likely to be out of date and may be no longer accurate. It’s best used as a snapshot of the media landscape at that point in time.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is an organization that distributes the federal government’s money to public media organizations.

Founded in 1967, CPB is the main funding source for more than 1,000 public radio and television stations. Its funding supports well-known PBS, NPR, and PRI shows, including PBS NewsHour, Frontline, All Things Considered, and Marketplace.

CPB is also a funding source for future-of-journalism experiments and collaborative projects, like NPR’s Project Argo, which received $2 million from CPB, and Localore, a series of local multimedia projects that received $1.25 million from CPB. NPR’s Code Switch and a number of multi-station Local Journalism Centers have also been funded by CPB.

Peers, allies, & competitors:

PBS, NPR, Public Radio International, Knight Foundation

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Jan. 2, 2025 / Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis

Can solutions journalism work for local newsrooms? — The news is often quite good at being bad — as in deeply negative and depressing. This systemic negativity in news coverage, in one estimation, has gone from being “a mere ‘news value’ to an overarching...

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Dec. 20, 2024 / Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Publishers find the AI era not all that lucrative — “The AI era,” Sara Fischer writes in Axios, “is proving lucrative for media publishers looking to offset a slowdown in ads and subscription fatigue.” My prediction for 2025 is that this will not b...

Dec. 20, 2024 / Millie Tran

Embrace the barbell — We live in a time of media fragmentation and hyperpolarization. This year’s presidential election raised further questions about traditional media’s relevance. And it seems increasingly clear that people are ...

Dec. 20, 2024 / Taylor Lorenz

Prediction markets go mainstream — For decades, the news industry has operated on a familiar rhythm: Journalists chase scoops, publish headlines, and define the news cycle. But a new model for information sharing is emerging. Prediction markets — platfo...

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