Cascade Public Media, the Seattle-based PBS affiliate, is laying off 16 employees after suffering a $3.5 million annual loss in federal funding.

In total, 19 positions were eliminated, including three that were still unfilled. Additionally, Cascade PBS will no longer produce local long-form journalism online. Crosscut, a nonprofit news website, became the home for this style of journalism after it merged with the PBS station KCTS 9 in 2024, joining Cascade Public Media.

“With the loss of federal funding for public media, we have been forced to make some hard choices about where we will invest our reduced resources for a sustainable future,” Cascade CEO Rob Dunlop wrote to staff on Monday in an email shared with KUOW . “Sadly, we are joining public radio and television stations around t

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