By Todd Spangler, Variety.com, 7-18-25 President Donald Trump took a victory lap July 18 after Congress formally passed his measure to claw back $9 billion in previously approved funding, including $1.1 billion for PBS and NPR – which public media execs have said could force dozens of local stations to shut down. Early Friday, [...]
By CPB, 7-14-25 As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on the Rescissions Act of 2025 that would cancel $1.1 billion in already approved funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a new national survey finds that U.S. voters place more trust in public media than media overall and hold a more favorable [...]
By InsideRadio.com, 7-3-25 In the first major policy speech of his chairmanship on July 2 in Sioux Falls, S.D., Brendan Carr laid out his “Build America Agenda” for the Federal Communications Commission…. Carr also detailed plans for modernizing FCC operations that will impact broadcasters alongside other industries. That includes the first votes in his ongoing [...]
By Dominick Mastrangelo, TheHill.com, 7-2-25 Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS News and one of the largest media conglomerates in the United States, has agreed to settle a high-profile lawsuit brought by President Trump over a “60 Minutes” interview with former vice president Kamala Harris that aired last fall. The settlement comes after months [...]
By Megan Graham, wsj.com, 6-12-25 Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Angus King (I-Maine) introduced a bill June 12 that would ban pharmaceutical manufacturers from using direct-to-consumer advertising, including social media, to promote their products. The bill would prohibit any promotional communications targeting consumers, including through television, radio, print, digital platforms, and social media. It would [...]
By Kevin Freking, apnews.com, 6-12-25 The House narrowly voted June 12 to cut about $9.4 billion in spending already approved by Congress as President Donald Trump’s administration looks to follow through on work done by the Department of Government Efficiency when it was overseen by Elon Musk. The package targets foreign aid programs and [...]
By Ted Johnson, Deadline.com, 6-10-25 A bill that would claw back federal funding for public broadcasting cleared the House Rules Committee on June 10, setting it up for a floor vote later in the week. If the bill passes, it will zero out $535 million in funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting over the [...]
By Nitasha Tiku and Leo Sands, washingtonpost.com, 5-22-25 A federal judge in Orlando rejected an AI start-up’s argument that its chatbot’s output was protected by the First Amendment, allowing a lawsuit over the death of a Florida teen who became obsessed with the chatbot to proceed…. Judge Anne Conway ruled that the case brought [...]
By Ed Holt, Inter Press Service, 5-5-25 Global press freedom across the world is at a “critical moment,” campaigners have warned, as a major index mapping the state of global press freedom hits an unprecedented low. In the latest edition of the annual press freedom index produced by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which was [...]
By Shannon Najmabadi, washingtonpost.com, 4-23-25 The European Union on April 22 fined Apple and Meta nearly a combined $800 million, and ordered Apple to change aspects of its business model within 60 days over alleged violations of the bloc’s sweeping rules meant to promote digital competition. The European Commission, the E.U.’s executive body, ordered [...]