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- CPB Financial Statements and Appropriations:
- https://cpb.org/aboutcpb/financials
- https://cpb.org/appropriation/history
- Emergency Alerts & Infrastructure:
- https://cpb.org/emergency-alerts
- https://cpb.org/sites/default/files/Emergency-Alert-Fact-Sheet.pdf
- Public Broadcasting Structure, Audience, and Funding
- CPB, Wikipedia:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_for_Public_Broadcasting
- Pew Research Center – Public Broadcasting Fact Sheet:
- https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/public-broadcasting/
- How federal funding for public media actually works (KCUR):
- https://www.kcur.org/inside-kcur/2025-02-07/federal-funding-public-media-cpb
- NPR: “A brief history of NPR funding” (May 13, 2025):
- https://www.npr.org/2025/05/13/1250902337/npr-cpb-public-radio-funding-101
- Dependency and Station Risk
- Statista: Public Media Federal Funding Dependency by State:
- https://www.statista.com/chart/34565/average-public-media-station-reliance-on-federal-funding/
- Cascade PBS: Rural & Native stations at risk:
- https://www.cascadepbs.org/news/2025/06/rural-native-stations-would-bear-the-brunt-of-public-media-cuts/
- Semipublicco: Stations Most at Risk:
- https://semipublicco.substack.com/p/here-are-the-public-media-stations
- Viewership, Kids Programming, & Educational Outcomes
- PBS Fast Facts:
- https://foundation.pbs.org/pbs-fast-facts/
- The Power of Public Media’s Ready To Learn Program:
- https://protectmypublicmedia.org/readytolearn
- EdSurge: “What Will Kids Lose If PBS Gets Cut?”
- https://www.edsurge.com/news/2025-06-18-what-will-kids-lose-if-pbs-gets-cut
- News Deserts and Local Journalism
- Medill Local News Desert Report:
- https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2024/medill-report-shows-local-news-deserts-expanding.html
- USNewsDeserts.com – Loss of Local News:
- https://www.usnewsdeserts.com/reports/expanding-news-desert/loss-of-local-news/
- Gateway Journalism Review — Rural Journalism:
- https://gatewayjr.org/news-analysis-rural-journalism-needs-more-study-broader-understanding/
- Political Timeline, Bias, and Defunding History
- Politico: “Defunding NPR? It's not that easy”:
- https://www.politico.com/story/2010/10/defunding-npr-its-not-that-easy-044056
- NPR: “Funding Battle Puts Public Radio, TV On The Defense”:
- https://www.npr.org/2011/03/03/134239725/GOP-Outlines-Plans-To-Cut-Public-Media-Funding
- Racket News – Timeline:
- https://www.racket.news/p/timeline-the-nprpbs-funding-debate
- STLPR: “Trump signs executive order to end public media funding”:
- https://www.stlpr.org/2025-05-02/trump-signs-executive-order-to-end-public-media-funding-heres-what-that-means-for-stlpr-in-the-fall
- White House Fact Sheet (Executive Order):
- https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/05/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-ends-the-taxpayer-subsidization-of-biased-media/
- NPR: “Report Finds Ex-CPB Chair Violated Law”:
- https://www.npr.org/2005/11/16/5014688/report-finds-ex-cpb-chair-violated-law
- Bias Evidence and Debate
- The Heritage Foundation:
- https://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/commentary/npr-and-pbs-dug-their-own-graves
- Media Research Center Analysis:
- https://www.mrc.org/
- Exhibit/Xavier University:
- https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=xjur
- Springer: “The Role of Public Broadcasting in Media Bias":
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-021-09756-0
- National Surveys and Audience Trust
- Pew Research Center – Trust & News Sources (2025):
- https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/26/americans-more-likely-to-support-than-oppose-continuing-federal-funding-for-npr-and-pbs/
- Protection and Advocacy
- Protect My Public Media – Blog:
- https://protectmypublicmedia.org/blog/2025/07/16/public-broadcasting-saves-lives/
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