2026年4月16日 / 美国东部时间下午3:22 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
在特朗普总统2025年宣布削减美国国家公共广播电台（NPR）和公共广播电视公司（PBS）拨款后，NPR已收到两笔总额达1.13亿美元的慈善捐款。
NPR于周四宣布，微软前首席执行官史蒂夫·鲍尔默的妻子、慈善家康妮·鲍尔默捐赠了8000万美元。据NPR介绍，这笔款项是该机构有史以来来自在世捐赠者的最大单笔捐款，将用于助力该广播网络升级数字技术应用，并提升其在全平台与受众的互动度。
“我支持NPR，因为知情公众是我们社会的基石，民主需要强大且独立的新闻业，”曾担任NPR基金会董事会成员的鲍尔默在一份声明中说道。“我希望这项承诺能为NPR提供大胆创新、巩固其全国广播网络所需的稳定性与动力。”
NPR表示，第二笔总额3300万美元的捐款来自一位匿名捐赠者。NPR首席执行官凯瑟琳·马赫尔表示，这些慈善捐款将帮助该网络及其旗下电台在未来数十年间拥有稳固的财务基础。
美国国会去年夏季削减了11亿美元公共广播拨款，导致约246家NPR电台以及数百家PBS机构迫切需要填补资金缺口。
本月早些时候，一名联邦法官裁定特朗普削减NPR和PBS拨款的行政命令违反第一修正案，该命令试图因媒体发表特朗普不喜欢的言论而对其进行惩罚。但这一判决并未恢复相关机构的拨款。
“[尽管]法院近期就特朗普政府的行政命令作出了有利于NPR和PBS的裁决——这是新闻自由与第一修正案的重大胜利——但这并未扭转国会削减拨款所带来的毁灭性现实，”马赫尔在一篇博客文章中说道。
她补充道：“超过10亿美元联邦资金的永久性流失，给整个公共媒体领域都带来了巨大的财务压力。”
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NPR receives $113 million in charitable gifts, including $80 million from Connie Ballmer
April 16, 2026 / 3:22 PM EDT / CBS News
National Public Radio has received two charitable gifts totaling $113 million after President Trump moved to slash funding for NPR and PBS in 2025.
Philanthropist Connie Ballmer, the wife of former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, made an $80 million donation, NPR announced on Thursday. The money — the largest ever from a living donor — will help enhance the radio network’s use of digital technology and increase engagement with audiences across platforms, according to NPR.
“I support NPR because an informed public is the bedrock of our society, and democracy requires strong, independent journalism,” Ballmer, a former member of the NPR Foundation board, said in a statement. “My hope is that this commitment provides the stability and the spark NPR needs to innovate boldly and strengthen its national network.”
NPR said the second gift, totaling $33 million, came from an anonymous donor. NPR CEO Katherine Maher said the charitable donations would put the network and its stations on solid financial ground in the decades to come.
Congress last summer cut $1.1 billion in funding for public broadcasting, leaving some 246 NPR stations and hundreds of PBS outlets scrambling to fill the hole.
A federal judge ruled earlier this month that Mr. Trump’s executive order to slash funding for NPR and PBS violated the First Amendment by seeking to punish media outlets for speech he dislikes. But the decision did not restore funding to the stations.
“[W]hile the court recently ruled in favor of NPR and PBS against the Trump Administration’s executive order — an essential victory for journalistic independence and the First Amendment — it did not reverse the devastating reality of the congressional defunding,” Maher said in a blog post.
“The permanent loss of more than $1 billion in federal funding has created significant financial pressure across all of public media,” she added.
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