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A massive list of winter 2025 grants, labs & fellowships

The holidays are different for everyone, but whether you’re feeling merry, lonely, reflective, or need an excuse to get away ...

Oscar Contender ‘The Librarians’ Booked To Anchor Winter Season Of PBS Series ‘Independent Lens’

Oscar contender 'The Librarians' will anchor the winter season of 'Independent Lens,' the long-running PBS documentary series ...

After NPR and PBS defunding, FCC receives call to take away station licenses

The CPB is set to shut down after Congress approved President Trump’s request to rescind its funding. The Center for American ...

Arkansas becoming 1st state to sever ties with PBS, effective July 1

The commission that oversees public television in Arkansas has voted to sever ties with PBS, making it the first state to end ...
The Hollywood Reporter

PBS Survives in Alabama, for Now, After Move to Ax Funding Fails

A push from state TV Board members that would have prevented series like 'Sesame Street' and 'NewsHour' from broadcasting in the state failed in a vote on Tuesday. By Kevin Dolak Alabama’s Public ...
CNN

PBS, defunded by Trump, says ‘we’re still here’ with big new Ken Burns documentary

Sunday’s premiere of Ken Burns’ new PBS series “The American Revolution” doubles as an attention-grabbing statement, months after President Donald Trump succeeded in stripping away all federal funding ...
The Boston Globe

Tell us: Are you concerned about funding cuts to PBS and GBH Kids?

Recent cuts to public media are not just affecting local stations and news programming. They also pose a threat to public children’s and educational programming that reaches millions of kids across ...
The Associated Press

AP, Frontline documentary ‘2000 Meters to Andriivka’ to premiere on PBS and begin streaming online

On Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, Frontline, the PBS documentary series produced at GBH in Boston, and The Associated Press will present the U.S. broadcast and ...
AV Club

John Oliver aims to secure PBS' funding with giant cabbage, Russell Crowe's jockstrap

Last night on Last Week Tonight, John Oliver devoted 35 minutes of his show to the funding crisis gripping public media channels across the country. As Oliver discusses, the attacks on public media ...
Colorado Public Radio

‘Guerrilla-style’: How a Colorado filmmaker made a documentary about immigrant workers inside Churchill Downs

“Backside” is a cinéma vérité-style documentary that observes the lives of the workers who care for the horses at Churchill Downs, the home of the Kentucky Derby. The film – created by Denver-based ...
PBS

Be Inspired: Through the Lens of Baltimore Scenes

The story of a photography community that hosts PhotoWalks in Baltimore City. "Be Inspired: Through the Lens of Baltimore Scenes", a short documentary film, tells the story of a photography group that ...
PBS

Trump signs government funding bill, ending record 43-day shutdown

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed a government funding bill Wednesday night, ending a record 43-day shutdown that caused financial stress for federal workers who went without paychecks, ...