The National Educational Telecommunications Association proudly announces the 58th annual Public Media Awards winners, recognizing the exceptional achievements of member stations in community engagement, content, education, and marketing and communications.

A year after the federal government upended public radio and television stations by defunding public media, a partnership of the Poynter Institute and Public Media Company is launching the Future of Public Media Initiative — a national effort to reimagine a public media system built to serve communities for the next 50 years and beyond.

PBS Reno has promoted Helen Krohn to the role of Content & Marketing project manager. In this role, Krohn will oversee the scheduling, resources, staffing and follow-up of all projects involving the Content & Marketing departments. 

Nearly 40% of people in Chicago said in a recent study that they lacked information on their neighborhoods and how to get involved in civic life. Chicago Public Media decided to try something new to solve this gap.

Twin Cities PBS announced it will become Minnesota PBS on Sept. 1 with the addition of KSMQ, extending regional and national PBS programming to nearly 350,000 new viewers, including those in Austin, Rochester, Winona and throughout seven southern Minnesota counties.  

In this episode of E&P Reports, we check in with Chicago Public Media, owners of PBS affiliate WBEZ, to find out how their 2022 acquisition of the 149-year-old Chicago Sun-Times is going. Appearing on the program are Jennifer Kho, executive editor for the newspaper and Tracy Brown, chief content officer for the parent company, who discuss their new initiatives, collaborative efforts and how the blending of these two major market brands is working to expand their audience.

For the third consecutive year, Northwestern University's Medill School has tracked how Americans' local news habits are changing. The latest survey confirms that audience demand for local journalism remains remarkably resilient, but it also reveals widening cracks in the industry's business model, growing skepticism about AI and an accelerating shift away from traditional broadcast platforms. During this episode of E&P Reports, researchers Tim Franklin and Dr. Stephanie Edgerly explained what every news leader should take away from the findings.

Twenty-five years after the attacks of September 11, leading journalists, First Amendment advocates and scholars gathered at Columbia University for The Forever War and the First Amendment, a symposium examining how two decades of conflict reshaped journalism. Fresh from the event, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Azmat Khan joined E&P Reports to discuss what the press learned—and failed to learn—from covering the War on Terror. She argued that many of the challenges exposed after 9/11, from overreliance on government sources to growing secrecy and declining public trust, continue to shape journalism today. For local news leaders, Khan said, those lessons remain as relevant in their communities as they are on the world's biggest stories.

Could a deal to ease the U.S.-Canada trade war let Big Tech off the hook for funding news? Canada’s Online News Act has secured millions for journalism, but publishers fear that support could become a bargaining chip in negotiations with Washington. For newsrooms receiving the money, the stakes are immediate; for publishers elsewhere, the outcome could shape their own fight for compensation. Four industry and policy leaders joined E&P Reports to examine the threat, challenge the trade arguments and explain why this Canadian battle matters far beyond its borders.