By Mondo Times editors
Boulder Colorado USA
Posted on March 7, 2011 at 8:05am

National Public Radio News (NPR) Pumping Millions into Investigative Reporting

-- On March 5, 2011, the Associated Press (AP) reported on the public media's financial commitment to coverage that digs deeper:

"NPR, PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) and local public broadcast stations around the country are hiring more journalists and pumping millions of dollars into investigative news to make up for what they see as a lack of deep-digging coverage by their for-profit counterparts.

Public radio and TV stations have seen the need for reporting that holds government and business accountable increase as newspapers and TV networks cut their staffs and cable television stations have filled their schedules with more opinion journalism.

"Where the marketplace is unable to serve, that's the role of public media," PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger said last year at a summit on the future of media at the Federal Communications Commission. "PBS exists to serve the people, not to sell them.""

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