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KTOO Public Media responds to White Home govt order attacking public media funding

Editorial Board Published May 6, 2025
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Final Thursday, President Trump issued an govt order directing the Company for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and all federal companies to stop federal funds, each immediately and not directly, to NPR and PBS.

It additionally makes an attempt to limit how native stations use their impartial funding. This motion jeopardizes the partnerships and funding that energy the trusted journalism, instructional programming and public security messages that native communities depend on daily.

In response, KTOO President and Basic Supervisor Justin Shoman has issued the next assertion:

“This govt order indicators a deliberate and harmful escalation in efforts to defund and dismantle public media. This isn’t about politics. That is about defending a service that thousands and thousands of People depend on daily — one which has loved bipartisan help for over 50 years.

This order is approaching high of an anticipated rescission package deal from the White Home that will claw again funding for public media that has already been appropriated by Congress. If this effort is profitable, it’s going to have a direct affect on KTOO’s potential to supply companies to our neighborhood by eliminating one third (1.2 million {dollars}) of our annual working price range. The rescission package deal, initially anticipated final week, is now reported to be delayed; we don’t understand how lengthy.

In Juneau and all through Alaska, public media performs a significant function in every day life. In lots of communities the native public radio station is the one domestically owned and managed media outlet and sometimes the only real supply of native info.

These companies are deeply linked to the assets and collaborations offered by NPR, PBS and our statewide community. This consists of our function within the Emergency Alert and Wi-fi Alerts Methods and our potential to report throughout and after pure disasters. Shedding this funding would compromise our potential to proceed this important work.

KTOO has offered Juneau with impartial journalism, linked our neighborhood to the humanities and promoted civic participation for greater than a half century. KTOO has additionally linked each Alaskan to their state authorities by producing and distributing Gavel Alaska (beforehand known as Gavel to Gavel) for thirty years. Our dedication to public service has allowed KTOO to develop into a cornerstone of public belief.”

You’ll be able to assist defend impartial public media by becoming a member of Shield My Public Media right this moment. It’s also possible to help KTOO immediately with a donation. It doesn’t matter what occurs in Washington, D.C., KTOO Public Media’s mission to tell, interact and serve each member of our neighborhood stays unwavering.

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