The U.S. Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a nonprofit that helped fund NPR, PBS and local radio and TV stations, is officially shutting down due to spending cuts authorized by President Donald Trump last summer. The board of directors voted to dissolve the organization after 58 years of service after it was stripped of more than $1 billion in funding. Here's more from NBC.
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting is officially shutting down months after GOP funding cuts
The CPB's board of directors voted to dissolve the private, nonprofit corporation after 58 years of service.
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"If it doesn't spread, it's dead." For Nieman Lab, Mark Coddington and Nick Matthews take a look at what news people share on social media, what they don't, and how they decide. "In smaller, closer networks, users are more attentive to pleasing their audience and maintaining relationships, carefully weighing the potential impact of each story," a new survey found. "In larger, more public-like networks, these concerns are less pronounced, as it becomes impossible to satisfy every participant." What's your attitude to sharing news on social media?
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Why people choose not to share news
Plus: U.K. journalists
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The Roosevelt Institute has released its report on the U.S. media crisis. Its key conclusion: "The crisis facing American journalism is the predictable outcome of decades of corporate libertarian media policy that prioritized commercial logics over democracy." Here's the full analysis.
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The Political Economy of the US Media System: Excavating the Roots of the Present Crisis - Roosevelt Institute
Bilal Baydoun, Shahrzad Shams, and Victor Pickard trace the roots of the US media crisis to decades of deregulation and commercial capture, outlini...
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