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NPR trims jobs in newsroom overhaul as it confronts era without public funding
Government news (NPR) ^ | May 18, 2026 | David Folkenflik

Posted on 05/18/2026 6:51:15 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica

NPR is restructuring its newsroom, including cutting some reporting and editing jobs, as it attempts to keep pace with changing audience habits while adjusting to an era without federal subsidies.

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biasmeanslayoffs; cpb; labor; npr; ohnoanyway; poeticjustice; schadenfreude; subsidies; subsidy; wellbye; winning
I guess they relied on more than 1% of government money after all.
1 posted on 05/18/2026 6:51:15 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
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To: T.B. Yoits
From the article: ...changing audience habits...

Yeah, "changing audience habits" such as not listening to outright lies.

2 posted on 05/18/2026 7:02:59 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Contact your local legislators and tell them to stop your local state universities from funding NPR. They used to simply pass money through to NPR; The federal government would pay the Corporation for Public Broadcasting which would pay TV stations... but only if they used that money to buy public radio. Thus, NPR monopolized college radio.

Now, college radio is still funding NPR without getting reimbursed. This is embezzlement! How does funding NPR (while hogging up the radio dial) help educate students? Why have a college radio stations if it’s only going to play the same pre-packaged propaganda 1200 other college radio stations play! Even the deepest of red states are still spending taxpayer money on leftist propaganda, instead of having communications programs.


3 posted on 05/18/2026 7:21:03 PM PDT by dangus
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Hey, NPRoids - put the fries in the bag!


4 posted on 05/18/2026 10:06:00 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: dangus

Important facts.

Example: In Michigan there are 5 universities with an NPR station, to go with 4 NPR stations non affiliated. So that cash can flow to 5 NPR stations if the other 4 are cut down.

Michigan does NOT need 9 NPR stations’ propaganda.

But I thought a federal judge blocked the cutback to NPR from US tax money. Guess I was wrong.


5 posted on 05/18/2026 11:49:25 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: ProgressingAmerica

How many people does NPR really need to publicize Democratic Party and Environmental Group press releases without doing any balanced reporting? Not many, so let the layoff continue and stop all direct and INDIRECT federal funding of NPR and PBS.


6 posted on 05/19/2026 12:48:37 AM PDT by Robert357
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To: ProgressingAmerica

NPR had a newsroom?


7 posted on 05/19/2026 3:28:49 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Communist cannot survive without sponging off taxpayers. Communists are so business illiterate that they would go broke running a whorehouse staffed with supermodels.


8 posted on 05/19/2026 4:48:57 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( Neocons in love with the Ukraine War hate how long the Iran War is taking.......... )
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Maybe NPR will also cut some of its more ridiculous coverage.


9 posted on 05/19/2026 5:42:33 AM PDT by yldstrk
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To: ProgressingAmerica

10 posted on 05/19/2026 5:43:03 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: ProgressingAmerica
There's a great Boston talk show host named Howie Carr who refers to NPR as “National Panhandler Radio”.
11 posted on 05/19/2026 7:08:28 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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