“This is going to be hard”: Texas public radio stations fighting to stay on the air after budget cuts

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LUBBOCK — When Congress passed President Donald Trump’s wish to cut funding to public media radio stations, chaos erupted around the nation. Social media pages were flooded with outrage that NPR and PBS stations were in jeopardy.

In Lubbock, the biggest city on the South Plains, reporters at Texas Tech Public Media — the city’s NPR outlet — were focused on a story about a different program that lost its funding . The three-person news team knew their jobs could be on the line, but they didn’t have time to react. The reporters were busy producing the news so that the community would know by morning how the los s