Public media are our media — news shows on NPR and PBS, quality kids' programming like Sesame Street, public access TV channels and community radio stations. We rely on public media to tell us the news, educate our children, entertain us, show us local government in action, and help us participate in our communities.
We’re at a moment when major changes in the market and in technology provide our best chance in decades to transform the media landscape. Because of these changes, public media in the United States have a historic opportunity to reinvent themselves.
But public media need our help to realize these goals: help securing more funding; help creating a stronger firewall against undue political pressure; and help building a bigger tent for noncommercial media producers to collaborate and flourish.
NewPublicMedia.org is partnering with forward-thinking leaders across the public media system, independent media makers and everyday people to implement effective public policies that will support public media over the long haul. We promote policies that foster more education, journalism, arts and culture, and we're working toward a state-of-the-art public media system that engages local communities and serves as an essential national resource.
NewPublicMedia.org is organized by Free Press, a national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media. Through education, organizing and advocacy, Free Press promotes diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, and universal access to communications. Learn more at www.freepress.net.