Austin Fuller
Reporter at Current
Basketball Twitter is the best Twitter. Currently, @currentpubmedia Formerly @orlandosentinel and @dbnewsjournal.
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1 week ago |
current.org | Austin Fuller
America’s Public Television Stations is urging Congress to reject any rescission of public media’s federal funding after reports of a White House plan to do so surfaced Monday. The New York Post first reported on a Trump administration pitch for Congress to “clawback” $1.1 billion appropriated to CPB. The New York Times also reported that figure, saying it would total about two years of CPB funding and noting that the proposal excluded about $100 million for emergency communications.
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2 weeks ago |
current.org | Austin Fuller
Louisville Public Media has named Kenya Young its next president and CEO. Young, who will begin May 19, joins LPM after former CEO and President Stephen George left the organization to join the American Journalism Project in January as head of emerging markets. Young is currently a senior VP at New York Public Radio, where she oversees a portfolio of national radio shows, podcasts, broadcast operations, live events and audience development, a news release said.
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3 weeks ago |
current.org | Austin Fuller
CPB leaders spoke publicly Tuesday about last week’s congressional hearing on public media and described the challenges facing efforts to preserve CPB’s federal funding. The March 26 hearing, dubbed “Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the heads of NPR and PBS Accountable,” ended with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), chair of the House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, calling for CPB to be defunded and dismantled.
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3 weeks ago |
current.org | Austin Fuller
A New York state senator has filed a bill to allow public television and radio stations to claim an existing tax credit for newspapers and broadcasters. Democratic Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal sponsored the bill. A 2023 bill he also sponsored created a payroll tax credit for journalist compensation, with a limit on the credit of up to $12,500 of a journalist’s pay per quarter or $50,000 annually.
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4 weeks ago |
current.org | Austin Fuller
A congressional hearing with the CEOs of NPR and PBS Wednesday ended with a call from the subcommittee’s chair to defund CPB. “The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is using taxpayer dollars to actively suppress the truth, suppress diverse viewpoints, and produce some of the most outlandish, ludicrous content,” said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).
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