CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING – 20/11/2019
Jan Schaffer
What role should public media play in supplying communities with more local news?
“I think it should be central,” a former CPB board member said earlier this week at a gathering that wrestled with solutions to the rapid spread of local news deserts around the country. His focus was on redirecting some of the $445 million that pubcasters annually receive in federal funding. “How can we use that $445 million to better support local journalism?” Howard Husock asked.