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PBS president, Prairie Public CEO address future of public media

PBS President Paula Kerger and Prairie Public CEO John Harris spoke Oct. 2 at the Sanctuary Events Center in Fargo about the future of public media amid funding cuts. On Thursday, Oct. 2, public media ...
PBS

FRONTLINE Launches FRONTLINE FEATURES: A Dedicated Effort to Produce and Distribute Cinematic, Feature-Length and Short Documentaries

TUE., NOV. 18, 2025 — FRONTLINE, the award-winning PBS documentary series produced at GBH in Boston, has announced the launch of FRONTLINE FEATURES — a new effort dedicated to producing cinematic ...
Hyperallergic

Filmmakers Condemn Lack of Diversity at PBS and Critique Overreliance on Ken Burns

The BIPOC nonfiction filmmaker collective Beyond Inclusion has drafted an open letter to PBS and its president and CEO Paula Kerger. Released March 29, "A letter to PBS from Viewers Like Us" raises ...
Opinion

Ken Burns calls PBS the 'Declaration of Independence' for communication, decries its defunding

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns lamented the federal spending cuts to PBS and praised public broadcasting as the "Declaration of Independence" of communication.
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Prairie Public event exceeds fundraising goal as PBS president delivers ‘state of the station’

This article was first published by the North Dakota Monitor and is republished here under a Creative Commons license. FARGO — It wasn’t just the severity of the federal cuts to public broadcasting ...