PBS NewsHour was awarded $3.5 million by the MacArthur Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The funding will enable travel across the country for reporting ...

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation on Tuesday announced 21 people will each receive $625,000 over five years to use as they please.

(BOSTON, July 5, 2007) PBS Frontline today announced a $5 million grant from MacArthur for its Frontline documentary series and its companion international newsmagazine FRONTLINE/World.

May 18, 2016 - Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with major support from Ford Foundation. Additional funding is provided the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Trust, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L.

October 9, 2025 - The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced its 2025 class of fellows on Wednesday, a prize often called the “genius award.”

September 28, 2021 - The Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation on Tuesday announced the 25 recipients, who will each receive $625,000.

November 19, 2013 - Andrew Carnegie Foundation, formerly Carnegie Corporation of New York Doris Duke Foundation Ford Foundation Charles F. Kettering Foundation Heising-Simons Foundation William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Robert Wood Johnson Foundation John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation Lumina Foundation for Education John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation David and Lucile Packard Foundation Park Foundation Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund The Walton Family Foundation

September 26, 2019 - Female academics whose expertise and influence in areas as diverse as the impact of slavery on modern America, legislating against cyber harassment, and global warming and its effect on rising sea levels were named as three of this year's 26 MacArthur fellows and recipients of genius grants.

September 7, 2023 - The MacArthur Foundation gives more than $30 million annually to help support PBS, NPR and other journalism ventures.

October 6, 2020 - The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation on Tuesday announced 21 people will each receive $625,000 over five years to use as they please. The foundation has awarded the "genius grants" every year since 1981.

September 7, 2023 - The MacArthur Foundation gives more than $30 million annually to help support PBS, NPR and other journalism ventures.

August 19, 2025 - MIAMI – August 19, 2025 – The ... Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation today announced that they will commit nearly $37 million to provide immediate relief to public media stations at risk of closure following federal ...

May 18, 2016 - CHICAGO — The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced a major expansion of its support for nonprofit journalism at the PBS Annual Meeting Wednesday.

April 27, 2026 - As of September 2025, the MacArthur ... started by the Public Media Co. intended to provide $100 million towards roughly 1,600 funding local radio station and media groups following the National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public ...

October 5, 2023 - The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced the 2023 class of fellows, often known as recipients of the "genius grant," on Wednesday.

September 22, 2016 - This year’s class of MacArthur Foundation fellows include a human rights lawyer, a video artist, a geobiologist and a jewelry maker/sculptor.

October 12, 2022 - A specialist in plastic waste management, artists, musicians, computer scientists, and a poet-ornithologist who advocates for Black people in nature are among this year's 25 winners of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's prestigious fellowships known as "genius grants" that honor discipline-bending and society-changing people whose work offers inspiration and insight.

So, in the end, instead of suing Drew Pearson, he pays him 15,000 dollars to get back the letters, and on top of that he pays Dimples as well to be freed of this relationship. NARR: MacArthur saw his tenure as Chief of Staff as unrewarding.

August 19, 2025 - A group of seven philanthropic organizations on Tuesday announced a $37 million commitment to fuel local public media amid the federal funding repeals for PBS and NPR, which has created financial challenges for smaller stations across the country ...

The Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation on Tuesday announced the 25 recipients, who will each receive $625,000.