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Chicago Public Media doubles support for statehouse reporting collaborative

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Chicago Public Media doubles support for statehouse reporting collaborative

CPM's increased support will reduce costs for other participating stations.
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Chicago Public Media Partners invests in partnership with Illinois Public Broadcasters

The collaboration funds two full-time, dedicated reporters on the ground in Springfield, and focuses on stabilizing the network after the loss of federal funding for public media.
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Yes its to increase reporting from the Illinois State Capital and also put emphasis on statewide reporting in this reporting program.
An Illinois statehouse reporting collaboration is continuing with an increased financial commitment from Chicago Public Media.

The initiative, which CPM has managed since 2021, provides reporting from the statehouse for 10 participating stations. Federal funding cuts last year spurred some stations to consider ending their participation in the initiative to cut costs, according to Heather Norman, GM of Tri States Public Radio in Macomb, Ill., and president of the Illinois Public Broadcasting Council.

Stations bowing out “would have only increased the burden for everybody else who wanted to keep it, and then you have kind of a slippery slope, and then statehouse [reporting] goes away,” Norman said.
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That's great. Pennsylvania (where I live) public radio can't seem to collaborate to get ONE reporter full-time at the state capital. Gone are the days when Mary Wilson (now producer for "The Daily") and then Katie Meyer (WITF) were full-time at the state capital. Katie also did a 1-hour weekly podcast from a nearby coffee shop (clicking dishware heard in background). Boots on the ground (reporting) seem to be a dying breed here.
 
tvnut said:
That's good, especially because the Associated Press no longer has a reporter in Springfield.
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Too bad about the Associated Press. I'm hoping that they might up their game now that CBS radio is calling it quits and bring back 24/7 top of the hour newscasts to their radio network. Currently, they have newscasts Monday through Friday from 5:00 am through 10:00 pm., and no AP radio network news on Saturday and Sunday. They also used to have an hourly 1 or 2-minute sports cast.
 


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