CPB is a nonprofit private organization established by Congress in 1967. It helps fund PBS and National Public Radio as well as individual programs, including the NewsHour.

CPB subsequently informed PBS and 44 public media stations that receive Ready To Learn grants to stop their work. “The decision by the Department of Education to abruptly end the Ready to Learn grant ...

Correction: A previous version of this article gave incorrect names of the fired CPB board members. They are Laura Ross, Diane Kaplan and Thomas Rothman. A federal judge on Sunday declined to block… ...

CPB has “no immediate plans” to hire a new ombudsman, the organization said in a statement Tuesday. CPB’s last ombudsman, Jan Schaffer, posted her final column April 19; her three-year term ended ...

The CPB is distinct from NPR and PBS and does not produce programming or own, operate or manage any public media stations. Today, CPB-funded public media reaches nearly 99% of the U.S. population.