Madeleine Brand is the host of NPRs newest and fastest-growing daily show, Day to Day. She conducts interviews with newsmakers (Iraqi politicians, US senators), entertainment figures (Bernardo Bertolluci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Gervais), and the everyday people affected by the news (an autoworker laid off at GM, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq).
WXXI Faces Devastating Federal Funding Cuts
Early this morning, the Senate passed an amended version of the Rescissions Act, which now heads back to the House for final consideration. The Senate-passed version of this bill still revokes $1.1 billion in already-approved federal funding for public media—including $1.9 million that WXXI stands to lose.
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