National Public Radio and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting clash as federal funding declines.
NPR trims $5 million as public radio stations struggle to pay bills
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/27/nx-s1-5554882/npr-federal-funds-decline-clashes-cpb
Meanwhile, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Awards Grant to Public Media Infrastructure for Public Radio Interconnection.
A new, independent nonprofit entity will sustain public radio distribution through 2030.
https://cpb.org/pressroom/Corporation-Public-Broadcasting-Awards-Grant-Public-Media-Infrastructure-Public-Radio-0
NPR argued that since CPB is set to wind down operations starting with mass cuts in the coming days, has carried out an executive order that it considers illegal by doling out congressionally appropriated satellite funds to another group.
U.S. District Judge Randolph D. Moss, an appointee of President Barack Obama, is hearing NPR’s case against the government.
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