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After the Senate passed Donald Trump's federal federal funding cuts to public media, Ken Burns worries for the future of documentary filmmaking.
Ken Burns, a documentary filmmaker and director whose work is often published on PBS, criticized Congress’s elimination of $1.1 billion of federal funding for the Corporation for Public … ...
Ken Burns, a documentary filmmaker and director whose work is often published on PBS, criticized Congress’s elimination of $1.1 billion of federal funding for the Corporation for Public ...
Congress is moving toward revoking a billion dollars in already approved funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the entity that steers funds to public media stations. William ...
Ken Burns meets America’s latest crisis America's storyteller wants to put the 'us' back in the U.S. PBS is the key to that mission ...
Filmmaker Ken Burns tells NPR's Michel Martin about the role that federal funding has played in his documentary work and the potential impact of the loss of that funding on children's programming.
Filmmaker Ken Burns called the elimination of federal funding for public broadcasting shortsighted, warning that the cuts will be catastrophic for new filmmakers and rural communities. He calls it a ...