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Reporter Says Alito Retirement Blunder Was 'Rookie Mistake'

NPR's Nina Totenberg discusses the fallout from a misheard word

(Newser) - Nina Totenberg is calling it the biggest blunder of her half-century career, and it began with one misheard word at the Supreme Court. The longtime NPR legal affairs correspondent apologized Tuesday after incorrectly reporting that Justice Samuel Alito was stepping down—an error that briefly set off a frenzy in...

Headline on Justice Alito's Retirement Is Premature

NPR retracts story claiming 76-year-old was packing it in; SCOTUS rep calls yanked article 'inaccurate'

(Newser) - Justice Samuel Alito is still on the Supreme Court, despite what an NPR story briefly claimed on Tuesday. The outlet pulled a piece by longtime court correspondent Nina Totenberg that incorrectly reported SCOTUS had announced the 76-year-old justice's retirement, reports the New York Times . A Supreme Court spokesperson labeled...

NPR Reporter Accuses Santos of 'Bizarre' Threat

Ex-congressman denies 'gun' comment after critical story

(Newser) - George Santos didn't just dispute NPR's reporting on him—journalist Bobby Allyn says he delivered a jarring threat over the phone. "This story is going to get you a gun in your face," Allyn recounts Santos as telling him in a first-person piece at NPR . The...

Report: George Santos Under Investigation Again

Sources say ex-congressman profited from deceptive bets on prediction market Kalshi

(Newser) - George Santos may have exited prison , but federal investigators reportedly aren't done with him. NPR reports that the former New York congressman sentenced to more than seven years in prison for fraud before Trump commuted his sentence last October is now under investigation by the Justice Department and Commodity Futures...

A Heckuva Fund Drive: NPR Lands $113M in 2 Gifts

Connie Ballmer doles out $80M, while another, anonymous, drops $33M in the coffers

(Newser) - Looks like NPR's latest pledge drive was a massive success: NPR on Thursday announced two donations totaling $113 million, including the largest gift it has ever received from a living donor. Philanthropist Connie Ballmer, who runs the Ballmer Group with her husband, former Microsoft executive Steve Ballmer, is giving...

Judge Says Trump Can't End Funding for NPR, PBS

He says First Amendment 'does not tolerate viewpoint discrimination and retaliation'

(Newser) - A federal judge on Tuesday agreed to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing a presidential directive to end federal funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service. US District Judge Randolph Moss in Washington ruled that President Trump's executive order to cease funding for NPR and...

Radio Host Alleges Google's AI Podcast Voice Mimics Him

Radio veteran sues, alleging NotebookLM cloned his voice without consent

(Newser) - Radio host David Greene says he didn't sign up to co-star in Google's AI podcasts—but his ears tell him otherwise. The former host of NPR's Morning Edition is suing Google, alleging its NotebookLM tool, which uses AI to create on-demand podcasts, uses an AI-generated male voice...

PBS Dumps News Shows: 'This Is Not a Temporary Decision'

Weekend news programs to be replaced by single-topic shows after federal government cuts funds

(Newser) - PBS will premiere separate programs on science and foreign affairs next weekend after shutting the doors on its Saturday and Sunday breaking newscasts because of the federal government's $1.1 billion cut in funding to public broadcasting. PBS News Weekend signed off Sunday, "at least for the foreseeable...

After Defunding, CPB Votes Itself Out of Existence

Corporation for Public Broadcasting dissolves itself to protect the 'integrity of the public media system'

(Newser) - Leaders of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private agency that has steered federal funding to PBS, NPR, and hundreds of public television and radio stations across the country, voted Monday to dissolve the organization. It was created in 1967 by an act of Congress. CPB had been winding down...

Philanthropies Pony Up $37M for Public Media

Philanthropic team says it wants to help protect at-risk public TV, radio stations around the US

(Newser) - With public funding to NPR and PBS in the Trump administration's crosshairs , a group of philanthropies has announced it's got nearly $37 million to help keep public media above water, per the Hill . According to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation , one of the organizations involved,...

NPR Losing Top Editor After Funding Cuts

Edith Chapin says her exit is unrelated

(Newser) - NPR now has two big challenges: Its top newsroom leader said Tuesday she is stepping down later this year, a move that comes just after Congress stripped federal funding from public media. However, Edith Chapin says her exit is unrelated to the funding cut, adding that she informed superiors...

Senate Delivers a Blow to Public Broadcasting

GOP claws back aid to CPB and foreign programs, with 2 dissensions

(Newser) - The Senate handed President Trump a major victory on spending overnight, agreeing to pull back $9 billion previously approved by Congress for public broadcasting and foreign aid. It marks the first major clawback—formally called rescission—of federal funding in decades. Most of the money, roughly $8 billion, is for...

Trump Wins House Vote to Cancel Billions in Funding

GOP narrowly pushes through cuts in foreign assistance, money for NPR, PBS

(Newser) - The House narrowly voted Thursday to give President Trump the authority to cancel billions of dollars in funding already approved for foreign aid and public broadcasting. It measure is part of the Trump administration's effort to codify a portion of the cuts proposed by the Elon Musk's Department...

Trump Moves to Claw Back $9.4B Approved by Congress

White House wants to make DOGE cuts to foreign aid, public broadcasting permanent

(Newser) - The White House sent what's known as a "rescission request" to Congress on Tuesday, seeking to claw back $9.4 billion in funding—mostly for foreign aid and public broadcasting— that lawmakers have already approved. The move seeks to enshrine the cuts made by Elon Musk's DOGE,...

NPR Sues White House Over 'Textbook Retaliation'

Broadcaster says Trump administration isn't being subtle about cutting off funding, 'comes as a wolf'

(Newser) - National Public Radio promised to fight a presidential executive order cutting off its federal funding, and now that's exactly what it's doing. The public broadcaster—which, along with PBS, was targeted by President Trump's executive order earlier this month accusing them of being "biased media"—...

Trump Moves to Cut Funding for 2 Media Outlets

No more federal cash for NPR, PBS, per new executive order against 'biased media'

(Newser) - President Trump has long made clear his disdain of the mainstream media, but now he's putting more teeth on that by closing the government's wallet on two major broadcasters. The commander in chief on Thursday added to his record-breaking executive-order blitz with yet another EO, this time directed...

Democrats Use Sarcasm to Defend NPR, PBS

Is Elmo a Communist? asks Democratic congressman at hearing on funding

(Newser) - Top executives from NPR and PBS sought to defend their organizations during a contentious hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday spearheaded by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. The congresswoman described the organizations as "radical left echo chambers" with "communist" programming, while the execs and Democratic defenders maintained they play...

FCC Chair Thanks Sheryl Crow for Ditching Her Tesla

Says more celebs should do the same to fund NPR

(Newser) - Consider Brendan Carr unimpressed. The FCC chair responded to Sheryl Crow's Tesla move—the singer sold off her EV and donated the proceeds to NPR in a rebuke to Tesla CEO and Trump adviser Elon Musk—with a sarcastic post on Musk's X social network Saturday, the Hill...

The Pentagon Kicks Out NBC, NYT, NPR, Politico

The move is part of a plan to rotate access for media outlets each year

(Newser) - Four major news outlets will no longer have highly coveted office space at the Pentagon after the Defense Department released an internal memo announcing it's giving their space to other outlets. CNN's Haley Britzky posted the memo on X that said NBC News, the New York Times, NPR,...

Marjorie Taylor Greene Has NPR in Her Sights
MTG Has NPR
in Her Sights
Nov 25, 2024 1:00 AM CST

MTG Has NPR in Her Sights

She threatens to slash federal funding as chair of House DOGE subcommittee

(Newser) - Marjorie Taylor Greene is no fan of NPR, and as chair of an as-yet-unformed House subcommittee that will work with the newly-created Department of Government Efficiency, she says she will look into cutting the public broadcaster's government funding. "We'll be looking at everything from government-funded media programs...

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