On this edition of Your Call, we continue our discussion about public media cuts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's (CPB) announcement that it will shut down next month.
The CPB helps support more than 1,500 public TV and radio stations, documentaries, popular TV shows like Finding Your Roots, children's programming, the PBS NewsHour, and emergency alerts. How will this affect such critical programming? What's next for public media?
Guests:
Craig Aaron , co-CEO of Free Press , and editor of two books, including Changing Media: Public Interest Policies for the Digital Age
Sitara Nieves , award-winning journalist, vice president of teaching and organizational strategy at the Poynter Institute , former executive director of on demand for Marketplace/American Public Me