14 hours ago · This led to PBS closing its DEI office and dismissing the two employees in charge of DEI work. Cecilia Loving, SVP and head of DEI, joined PBS in the summer of 2021, less than a year after filmmakers pushed PBS to improve its DEI practices. Gina Leow, director of DEI, was hired in late 2021.

13 hours ago · PBS fired two diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) executives and scrapped the department after Bari Weiss’ online publication Free Press was tipped off that the broadcaster was ignoring ...

13 hours ago · PBS’ move also comes as Trump’s FCC continues to turn up the heat on public broadcasters over taxpayer funding and editorial direction. Tags DEI Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Donald ...

13 hours ago · PBS shuttered its DEI office and workers there are leaving the company ― as President Donald Trump ramps up efforts to defund public entities that emphasize anti-discrimination policies. “In order to best ensure we are in compliance with the President’s executive order around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion we have closed our DEI office ...

2 days ago · The move to close the unit comes after Trump issued a number of executive orders aimed at cutting DEI programs on a federal level and among federal contractors as well as private companies, and as ...

12 hours ago · According to PBS’s 2023 DEI report, Black, indigenous, and people of color employees comprised 48 percent of new hires and 35 percent of promotions in 2022; 43 percent of PBS’s senior ...

PBS is shutting down its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) office and its diversity officers are leaving in response to President Donald Trump’s executive orders. In a statement to Fox News ...

2 days ago · PBS announced in 2021 that it was requiring producers to provide their own DEI plans at the proposal stage for “all new agreements, series renewals and direct-to-PBS programs.” Must Read Stories

1 day ago · PBS, which receives federal funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, has closed its diversity, equity, and inclusion office. The closure follows an executive order by President Donald Trump issued on Inauguration Day that called for terminating "to the maximum extent allowed by law, all DEI, DEIA, and 'environmental justice' offices and positions (including but not limited to ...

1 day ago · PBS has become the latest organization to roll back on their DEI Initiatives amid Trump’s executive orders. This news comes as public broadcasters are currently facing funding threats and concerns of the Republican lawmakers revisiting proposals to cut or even eliminate funding for the media outlet.