he / him / his CEO Southern Oregon PBS Medford, Oregon USA
BBC examining plans that could lead to U.S. consumers paying for its journalism | BBC | The Guardian
"Purvis especially, in spite of Patience’s self-containment, radiates quiet charisma — new-star power. A second season, happily, is already on the cards." -- LA Times Review of "Patience," premiering TONIGHT at 8 on SOPBS.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2025-06-13/patience-review-pbs-masterpiece-mystery?sfmc_id=65329f8125b3640666ae6afd&utm_id=40292088&skey_id=4460e40c971faab24d8460f29899a8fad7b05c8db8a37218ca5b4ef66407639f&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLTR-Email-List-Entertainment%20Digest-20250614&utm_term=Newsletter%20-%20Entertainment
She Was Raised on 'Sesame Street.' It Shaped the Person She Is Today.
Other public media leaders and I were interviewed by Politico about the catastrophic impact of potential cuts to federal funding for public media:
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/12/pbs-npr-trump-cuts-00400433
Urge Congress to save public media: https://protectmypublicmedia.org/rsc-calls/
The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson has died at age 82 : NPR
Senior House Republican opposes White House proposal to cut public media funding
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/09/congress/gop-opposition-to-public-media-funding-cuts-00394568
@funes Ken Burns often says “History may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
Educators! Don’t miss your chance to dive into THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, the new Ken Burns documentary — and explore how to use it in your classroom 🎬
We're hosting a virtual session to preview PBS LearningMedia's new resources for grades 3-12 for the series.
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The words of wisdom shared with the Class of 2025 by commencement speakers
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-words-of-wisdom-shared-with-the-class-of-2025-by-commencement-speakers?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Nation @nation-PBSNewsHour
Amid a GOP push to eliminate all federal funding for public media for the next two years, a group of 29 Senate Democrats are warning the broadcast outlets should be "protected, not decimated."
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/04/g-s1-70455/democrats-oppose-trump-public-media-cuts-request-as-gop-plans-vote-to-defund-npr-pbs
Study finds that PBS is a major source of news regardless of political preferences. 54.5% of self-declared “extreme conservatives” and 58.5% of self-declared “extreme liberals” in our survey sample consider PBS a major source of news and information.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/americans-trust-pbs-because-its-publicly-funded-not-in-spite-of-it/
Empirical research finds that Americans from across the political spectrum do not subscribe to the notion of a biased PBS. The study found that those who watch PBS trust it immensely for several complementary reasons.
https://current.org/2025/06/study-shows-americans-trust-pbs-precisely-because-its-publicly-funded/
“During this fight we will demonstrate our value to Congress,” PBS CEO Paula Kerger said in a statement, “as we have over the last 50 years, in providing educational, enriching programs and critical services to all Americans every day for free.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/03/media/trump-rescission-cpb-pbs-npr-public-broadcasters
President Trump took yet another step Tuesday to place NPR and PBS at the center of his broader clash with major cultural institutions, formally asking Congress to take back the $1.1 billion it has already appropriated for all public broadcasters for the next two years.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/03/nx-s1-5418080/pbs-npr-trump-rescission-public-broadcasting
Bait & Switch: Handshake deal to support local journalism w both state & Google funds emerged from negotiations w CA lawmakers last summer, who initially proposed legislation to force tech giants to compensate online publishers as required in countries like Canada.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/22/californias-google-journalism-deal-00365927
The ‘Daniel Tiger’ effect: How quality kids’ TV impacts teen mental health — and why cuts to PBS could be disastrous
https://www.fastcompany.com/91343013/the-daniel-tiger-effect-how-quality-kids-tv-impacts-teen-mental-health-and-why-cuts-to-pbs-could-be-disastrous?mvgt=5Hg0XaHSbR1N
PBS suing Trump administration over defunding, three days after NPR filed similar case
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/pbs-suing-trump-administration-over-defunding-three-days-after-npr-filed-similar-case?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Politics @politics-PBSNewsHour
PBS and Minnesota public TV station sue Trump White House
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/30/nx-s1-5418084/pbs-and-minnesota-public-tv-station-sue-trump-white-house?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business @business-npr
