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Public radio's funding future remains unclear

Here & Now‘s Asma Khalid speaks with KCRW president Jennifer Ferro, who serves as chair of National Public Radio’s board of directors, about NPR’s funding emergency.

With public media set to lose federal funding in the fall, NPR and the hundreds of member stations in the national public radio network face some very tough decisions.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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