The drumbeat to cancel all federal funding for public media has continued in Washington and significant new steps have been taken to make this outcome a reality. Here’s an update on where we stand.

Update 4/16/25 | 2pm — Our engineer is performing ongoing maintenance on the receiving antennas for our Gasquet translator site in an effort to improve signal quality for our Classics & News service in Gasquet, Brookings and Crescent City.

Our Classics & News service on 91.5 FM and 90.5 FM and Rhythm & News on 89.3 FM in Curry County are experiencing intermittent issues due to a problem with the receiving antennas at our Port Orford site. Our engineer is working to improve service quality.

In recent weeks the Trump administration has taken several steps that cast an ominous shadow on public broadcasting and may forebode future actions that attempt to weaken the role public radio and television stations play in communities across the country.

As we look to the year ahead, we expect a great deal of uncertainty. Following the November election, the incoming Trump administration has announced the formation of a committee called the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The charge of this committee, according to the administration, is to reduce the size of government and save money by improving efficiency and eliminating waste, fraud and abuse. Who could be against that?

For its seventh year, our national podcasting competition will invite students from all around the country, in grades four through 12, to bring us their best audio stories.

Both JPR and NPR get plenty of feedback from listeners. This feedback runs the gamut from wild, expletive laden rants to well-reasoned, thoughtful critiques of our work.

With a fantastic final day of the drive, we landed just a bit shy of our $120,000 goal. Thank you for coming through once again to support public radio…

Summer is awards season in newsrooms around the country, a time when several prominent news organizations recognize the best journalism produced in the previous year. Here at JPR, we submit stories that we believe reflect our best work, not to pat ourselves on the back, but to see how our work stacks up against our peers. These awards are judged by accomplished journalists, communication professionals and academics so recognition is very meaningful to both reporters and newsroom leaders.

JPR seeks a News Director to lead and manage news content across its broadcast and digital platforms.

JPR was among a dozen NPR stations around the country to be recognized in the small market category and the only station in this category to be recognized for investigative reporting.