Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Hamilton Nolan, 7/22/25
Headline: “Journalism Needs Government Funding to Survive”
Subhead: “The recent cuts to public media are part of a broader attack on public welfare.”
“Last week’s decision by Republicans in Congress to eliminate government funding for public media blows a billion-dollar hole in the budgets of local news stations across America. While NPR and PBS will survive, the existence of small broadcasters in rural, red-state news deserts is now endangered. In at least one sense, however, this attack on the public’s right to news will have a unifying function. Journalists, citizens, and civil society as a whole—red, blue, or striped—can be assured that we are all riding a pendulum swinging at terrifying speed in the wrong direction.
“If we want to see a robust level of news reporting exist in this nation—comparable to what we had in the twentieth century—we will need public funding for journalism. . .”
Read the full article at:
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/journalism-needs-government-funding-to-survive.php