Media

After a lengthy audit and review process, vital Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding has been distributed to WTVP, Peoria’s PBS station.

WTVP was at risk of running out of money over the summer until it liquidated some investments and tapped into its line of credit. But board members say they didn't know about those moves right away.

WGLT spoke to two experts within Illinois State University's School of Communication to get their takes on how to navigate news, social media and mis- or disinformation campaigns aiming to target consumers.

Quad Cities-based newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises is asking its shareholders to help it fight off a hostile takeover offer from what it calls a "vulture hedge fund," Alden Global Capital.

Cities 92.9 is playing an increasingly prominent role in the local media and political ecosystem in Bloomington-Normal, thanks in part to its investment in local newsgathering and shows. But that same local pivot has also opened the station up to criticism that it’s veered too far to the right in an increasingly purple McLean County.

The website of a well-known conservative McLean County blogger has been suspended.

Media experts at Illinois State University say high schools will need to do more than teach students which news sources to follow and which not to follow.

The parent company of Tthe Pantagraph newspaper in Bloomington is moving its shares off the New York Stock Exchange and to Nasdaq that trades shares of…

COVID-19 is now so entrenched in daily life that some may not have noticed how it's bled onto the screen. From subtle mask wearing to celebrations of…

WGLT Program Director Mike McCurdy will retire at the end of the month after nearly 40 years in broadcasting, 30 of them at WGLT.McCurdy came to WGLT as…