{"id":148864,"date":"2025-08-19T14:22:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/?p=148864"},"modified":"2025-08-19T14:22:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:22:50","slug":"major-foundations-pledge-funding-for-npr-pbs-but-not-alternative-conservative-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/major-foundations-pledge-funding-for-npr-pbs-but-not-alternative-conservative-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Major foundations pledge funding for NPR, PBS (but not alternative conservative media)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>by<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>WorldTribune<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Staff<\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>, August 19, 2025 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Real World News<\/span><\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Several foundations are ponying up millions of dollars to ensure the leftist narrative lives on at NPR and PBS.<\/p>\n<p>Less than two months after President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress moved to eliminate government funding of public media outlets, the Knight Foundation, Pivotal Ventures, the MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, the Schmidt Family Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced plans to raise $50 million this year for leftist news.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-148865 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cpb-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"226\" \/>\u201cThe six philanthropies are planning to offer $37 million and have called on others to pony up the rest to help small TV and radio outlets that were funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which said it would close its doors after Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that defunded it,\u201d Paul Bedard noted in an Aug. 19 op-ed for the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Jj6mm1ntG6\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3760130\/fifty-million-dollars-bail-out-public-tv-radio-stations-defunding-public-media\/\">Fifty million dollars sought to bail out public TV and radio stations<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Fifty million dollars sought to bail out public TV and radio stations&#8221; &#8212; Washington Examiner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3760130\/fifty-million-dollars-bail-out-public-tv-radio-stations-defunding-public-media\/embed\/#?secret=J5QUPE7DPu#?secret=Jj6mm1ntG6\" data-secret=\"Jj6mm1ntG6\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bedard added: &#8220;The philanthropies said in a statement that defunding CPB would result in the loss of up to 30% of funding for many independent media outlets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maribel P\u00e9rez Wadsworth, president and CEO of the Knight Foundation, noted: \u201cLocal public media stations are trusted community anchors that connect people to vital news, culture and civic life. This is an urgent moment that calls for bold action. We are proud to stand with our fellow foundations and urge others to join us in securing the future of public media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump and Republicans said they cut taxpayer support for public broadcasting due to the outlets\u2019 lopsided promotion of liberal politics and politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative outlets aren\u2019t expected to get any of the millions the foundations are earmarking for media.<\/p>\n<p>A third of the fund will go to the Public Media Bridge Fund to offer grants and low-interest loans to \u201cvulnerable stations,\u201d per a Knight Foundation press release.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Bedard noted that MacArthur is committing $10 million in direct support of public media stations, programs, and organizations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMillions of people rely on public media for trusted local news, educational programming, and stories that reflect their lives and experiences,\u201d said John Palfrey, president of the MacArthur Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStations serving rural, small to mid-market, and Native communities, as well as documentary ecosystems, are disproportionately impacted by the funding cuts and need intentional support. These stations are more than just broadcasters \u2014 they are critical sources of information and connection.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/freepressfoundation.org\/fight-back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ad3434;\">Support<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/freepressfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Free Press Foundation<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by WorldTribune Staff, August 19, 2025 Real World News Several foundations are ponying up millions of dollars to ensure the leftist narrative lives on at NPR and PBS. Less than two months after President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress moved to eliminate government funding of public media outlets, the Knight Foundation, Pivotal Ventures, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":148865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,10,30,12,5],"tags":[433,434,6],"class_list":["post-148864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusives","category-rest-of-the-best","category-top-stories","category-u-s-media","category-world-links","category-world-tribune","tag-major-foundations-pledge-funding-for-npr","tag-pbs-but-not-alternative-conservative-media","tag-worldtribune-com","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}