In the wake of devastating federal cuts to public broadcasting, Report for America is responding by taking urgent action to ensure Alaskans continue to receive essential news and information. The national service program will immediately support two full-time reporters in public radio stations KRBD (CoastAlaska) in Ketchikan and KOTZ in Kotzebue.

High Plains will launch an ambitious Civic Media Network, which will recruit community contributors in rural areas to cover Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Colorado. Rocky Mountain will create a shared engineering staff for its 21 community radio stations across Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, creating an equipment pool for emergencies and developing an apprentice program to strengthen the talent pipeline.

NPR announced that, beginning Sept. 29, Scott Detrow will become a full-time weekday host of “All Things Considered” and will continue as a host of NPR's daily news podcast “Consider This.”

WHYY in Philadelphia — the home of Peabody Award-winning “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross and Tonya Mosely — and Pulitzer-winning public media distributor PRX today announced “Sports in America,” a new weekly public radio show and podcast hosted by renowned journalist David Greene. The program will debut Tuesday, Sept. 30.

All told, lawmakers in 19 states and U.S. territories hold operating licenses and budgetary sway over public media budgets. Another 49 universities run public media stations.

In this episode of E&P Reports, we check in with Chicago Public Media, owners of PBS affiliate WBEZ, to find out how their 2022 acquisition of the 149-year-old Chicago Sun-Times is going. Appearing on the program are Jennifer Kho, executive editor for the newspaper and Tracy Brown, chief content officer for the parent company, who discuss their new initiatives, collaborative efforts and how the blending of these two major market brands is working to expand their audience.

Heather Burns has spent three decades breaking barriers in sports journalism — and now she’s making history as USA TODAY’s first women’s sports editor. From building ESPN’s NFL Nation team to championing deeper coverage of women’s athletics, Burns brings both experience and passion to the role. “It can’t always be cheerleading,” she says. “It’s also got to be good journalism with integrity.” With a new strategy called Studio IX and the power of the USA Today Network behind her, she’s determined to give women’s sports the coverage it has always deserved.

The Knight Center for the Future of News at ASU’s Cronkite School isn’t tinkering at the edges of journalism — it’s ripping up the blueprint and starting fresh. Dean Battinto Batts calls this moment “an inflection point,” where trust is eroding and technology is racing ahead faster than most newsrooms can follow. Julia Wallace insists transformation must be rooted in community, warning that too many audiences have been “left alone” without information they can rely on. Together, they’re pushing for flatter newsrooms, bold experiments with AI and business models that do more than keep the lights on — they rebuild confidence in what news is for.

When Ken Tingley retired after more than two decades leading The Post-Star in Glens Falls, New York, he thought he was closing the book on his newsroom career. Instead, he wrote one. Then he took it a step further—turning his memoir, The Last American Newspaper, into a stage play that sold out four nights in a row at the Adirondack Theatre Festival. The production didn’t just entertain. It pulled audiences to their feet, stirred tears, and forced a community to reckon with what happens when a local newsroom fades away.