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CNA
6 hours ago
- Politics
- CNA
CNA938 Rewind - NPR, PBS fund cuts: What's the future of public broadcasting in the US?
US Republicans recently approved President Donald Trump's plan to cancel US$9 billion in funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman speak with Rick Mullaney, Shircliff Executive Director of Public Policy Institute, Jacksonville University on the impact on public broadcasting in the country.
Washington Post
12 hours ago
- Politics
- Washington Post
Congress cut public media funding. Now what?
KYUK is the oldest Native American-owned radio station in the country. It broadcasts morning newscasts in both English and Yup'ik, the local Indigenous language, to 56 remote communities in Southwest Alaska. When there's a weather emergency or even just a local basketball game, these communities turn to KYUK for information. But soon, that could all change. Late last week, Congress passed a rescissions bill that claws back the money set aside for public broadcasting for the next two years. For KYUK, this money represents close to 70 percent of its entire budget. Without it, the station could go dark. Host Elahe Izadi speaks with KYUK's interim general manager, Kristin Hall, about what the loss of public media funding could mean for her community. Later, Elahe speaks with media reporter Scott Nover about how after decades of talking about defunding public media, Republicans finally made it happen. Today's episode was produced by Tadeo Ruiz Sandoval. It was edited by Maggie Penman and mixed by Sam Bair. Subscribe to The Washington Post here.
CNN
13 hours ago
- Politics
- CNN
NPR station KCRW chief: Our mission did not die when the funding ended
Congressional Republicans stripped more than $1 billon in federal funding from NPR and PBS, a move that could force public radio and TV stations across the country to drastically cut services or even close. KCRW President Jennifer Ferro tells CNN's Fredricka Whitfield what this means for their mission.
Reuters
16 hours ago
- Business
- Reuters
NPR's top editor Edith Chapin to step down
July 22 (Reuters) - National Public Radio's (NPR) Edith Chapin will step down from her role as editor in chief and acting chief content officer later this year, the news outlet said on Tuesday, at a time when the broadcaster faces funding pressure after the Trump administration slashed public media subsidies. The news comes a week after the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives passed a $9 billion funding cut to public media and foreign aid. This includes $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which distributes funding to news outlets NPR and PBS. The Trump administration has accused, opens new tab NPR and PBS of bias against conservative viewpoints. Chapin, who joined NPR in 2012 after 25 years at CNN, will remain head of newsroom operations while NPR searches for a new editorial leadership. Under her leadership, NPR's news division expanded its investigative reporting and deepened its international and national coverage, the company said. NPR is a nonprofit media organization that boasts a weekly audience of 43 million across its platforms and has 953,000 weekly app users, according to its website.
BBC News
a day ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
NI Arts: National youth choir facing closure due to funding cut
Northern Ireland's only national youth choir faces closure due to a funding cut from the Arts Council of Northern choir's artistic director Andrew Nunn said it would leave Northern Ireland as the only part of the UK and Ireland without a national youth member, 19-year-old Amy Patton from Belfast, said she was struggling to come to terms with the news."It really makes me angry if I'm honest with you because why would you be stealing something from young people that it means so much to?" she told BBC News NI. Her fellow choir member, 23-year-old Ciara Naomh Kennedy from west Belfast, had similar feelings."I was so upset when I heard the news, completely shocked, really upset," she said."We're going to be the only part of the UK and Ireland without a choir on that level." What is the National Youth Choir of Northern Ireland? Founded in 1999, the choir has been singing for more than a quarter of people can join the junior choir from the age of 11, and then progress up to sing with the senior choir until they are to the choir's artistic director Andrew Nunn, thousands of young singers have been involved with the choir since it began."The organisation has huge scale and reach," he said."Outreach is really important to us, so we go round all parts of Northern Ireland."I was up in Derry, Dungannon, Belfast of course, up in Ballymoney delivering school workshops."I think I did something like 54 workshops last year across the secondary schools and the primary schools." Pupils can then audition to join one of five choirs, which involves extra tuition, rehearsals and performances."We're seeing more than 2,000 people every single year, and in our choirs this year we've had 360 students at the highest level," Andrew Nunn senior choir is rehearsing for a performance at Fisherwick Presbyterian Church in Belfast on it could be its last choir received £60,797 in annual funding from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI) in it was unsuccessful in its bid for funding in 2025-26, which is likely to mean the end of the choir. How do young people in the choir feel? Ms Kennedy said she had been singing with the choir for almost a decade, having joined when she was a pupil at St Genevieve's High School."I just loved it, absolutely loved it, so I've just stuck around ever since," she said."The standard that we're singing at, there's just nothing else really like it in the country.""It was my first experience singing in a full male and female choir and it just completely changed everything for me," she said."There's just going to be so many young people like me in west Belfast who now won't get the opportunity to have a chance to sing in choirs at this level, at this standard."Ms Kennedy said the cross-community make-up of the choir was also important, a view shared by 23-year-old Daniel Stewart from Belfast, who has been in the choir for six years. "I had a lot of anxiety when it came to performing on a stage with a choir," he said."Since then, I've just been able to grow in my confidence, my music ability."The experience as a whole is something I'll never forget, I'll carry with me my entire life." Amy Patton, who joined the junior youth choir when she was 11, said she had gained lots of confidence in her musicianship and experience in the choir also helped her gain a place at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester after she left school in east Belfast."It has genuinely just been one of the biggest blessings of my life to be able to be in this choir," she said."It saddens me so deeply that other young people will not get the opportunity to have the same chances that I did here." What has the Arts Council said? BBC News NI contacted the Arts Council of Northern Ireland for a statement they said that the National Youth Choir of Northern Ireland (NYCNI) did not receive funding from the Arts Council's 25-26 Annual Funding Programme. "The decision not to fund the NYCNI this year was based on the assessment of the application against the programme criteria. "The Arts Council cannot disclose specific information about the rejection of any application without explicit permission to do so from the rejected applicant."Mr Nunn appealed to the organisation "to come to the table and work with the organisation to try and make sure that this amazing power of work that we do, the amazing artistic result that we produce, that continues."
