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The drive by House Republicans to eliminate the ocean of federal debt one contentious spoonful at a time took another step forward Thursday when lawmakers voted 228 to 192 for a bill (HR 1076) to bar federal dollars from flowing,......

NPR and PBS could lose their federal funding from Congress. Following an earlier snit about the firing of NPR commentator Juan Williams, public radio was back in the news this week when an NPR executive slammed conservatives....

Amid a string of negative news reports, two high-level firings and a move in Congress to end its federal funding, National Public Radio was an organization in turmoil this week.But as grim as it seems for NPR, it is not the large public radio network...

The House voted to defund National Public Radio by a margin of 228 to 192 Thursday afternoon.The legislation would not only deny federal funds to NPR, it would also prohibit any public radio station receiving federal funds from using that money to buy NPR...

A furor erupted a year ago when a couple of young white women launched a blog about their life in MacArthur Park, a neighborhood west of downtown L.A. crowded with Central American immigrants. Writer Devin Browne and photographer Kara Mears......

PBS will hold its annual meeting in Orlando next month, shortly after public broadcaster WMFE announced it is selling Channel 24. How do you like that for irony? The big question is what happens to PBS programming in Orlando....

Jim Lehrer, the dean of TV news anchors and a beacon of journalistic values in a sea of media change, is stepping down after 36 years from the PBS anchor desk, he announced Thursday. Lehrer has been a regular at the PBS anchor desk in one form or...

WMFE has bills to pay, including $700,000 it owes to PBS for 2011 programming dues, WMFE boss Jose Fajardo says. But that's not all. "At this time WMFE is negotiating with several different state and federal agencies," Fajardo said in an email. "The...

Smithsonian Institution Secretary G. Wayne Clough speaks Thursday afternoon at a Town Hall Los Angeles event at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel on Pershing Square. Arranged last summer, the talk is billed as focusing on initiatives to increase local...

Federal support for arts and culture is now officially in the cross hairs of congressional Republicans, if that's a metaphor we're still allowed to use. Any way you want to describe it, the Republican Study Committee, made up of about......

The proposed Obama budget would cut 13.3% overall from cultural grantmaking agencies, but preserve or increase budgets of federally funded D.C. arts institutions. Obama budget for the arts....

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) was formed with the passage of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. As stated by President Lyndon Johnson when he signed the bill into law, while the CPB will receive support from the government, it will be...