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WGLT has earned a National Murrow Award for investigative reporting for a series about how orders of protection are enforced in McLean County. It's the first National Murrow Award for WGLT in a decade.

You probably have some questions about how federal defunding of public media could impact WGLT. Here's what we know.

WGLT and public broadcasters across the country are assessing an uncertain future after Congress voted after midnight Friday to cancel about $1.1 billion already committed to public radio and television stations.

WGLT and the entire NPR Network will fight to continue to bring you rigorous journalism, courageous storytelling, inspired music discovery, and the kind of reporting that democracy depends on — every day, without fear or favor.

Sen. Dick Durbin on Wednesday urged his Republican colleagues to vote against defunding public media, citing WGLT’s election events as one example of how local stations serve their communities.

WGLT and more than two dozen other NPR stations joined a newly filed amicus brief in the lawsuit that aims to block the Trump administration’s executive order to defund public media.

Today, NPR, alongside Aspen Public Radio, Colorado Public Radio, and KSUT Public Radio, filed suit to challenge President Trump’s unlawful Executive Order targeting NPR and PBS. They do so to defend our First Amendment rights and the rights of public media stations across the country. 

WGLT has earned two regional Edward R. Murrow Awards — one of the most prestigious honors in journalism. WGLT won for Overall Excellence and Investigative Reporting and now heads to the national competition.

Public broadcasters are weighing their options and waiting for what's next after the Trump administration issued an executive order to defund public media.

On Thursday night, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media.” The order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to prohibit both direct and indirect federal funding to NPR and PBS.