{"id":644,"date":"2026-04-16T20:30:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=644"},"modified":"2026-04-16T20:30:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:30:55","slug":"ballmer-gives-80-million-to-npr-with-strings-attached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=644","title":{"rendered":"Ballmer gives $80 million to NPR, with strings attached"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Photo by Rodin Eckenroth\/FilmMagic \/ Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/gettyimages-2166961371.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Connie Ballmer, wife of former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and co-founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ballmer_Group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Ballmer Group<\/a>, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/04\/16\/nx-s1-5787634\/npr-113-million-charitable-gifts-connie-ballmer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">given $80 million to NPR<\/a>. That&#8217;s roughly seven years&#8217; worth of government funding ($11.2m) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/660130\/trump-npr-pbs-executive-order-funding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">after Trump<\/a> and Congress cut funds for public media, but only a fraction of <a href=\"https:\/\/knightcenter.utexas.edu\/end-of-federal-funds-would-break-fabric-of-public-national-network-says-nprs-ceo\/#:~:text=%24300%20million%20annual%20budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR&#8217;s full annual budget of $300 million<\/a>. NPR may still cut jobs because the money has strings attached.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The money is specifically &#8220;to support the digital innovation that is essential to meeting the needs and serving the interests of public media audiences wherever they are and whenever they seek information,&#8221; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/04\/16\/g-s1-117649\/historic-113m-investment-catalyzes-nprs-strategic-push-for-digital-growth-and-network-sustainability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a press release<\/a>. NPR journalist David Folkenflik writes  \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/913518\/ballmer-gives-80-million-to-npr-with-strings-attached\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connie Ballmer, wife of former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and co-founder of the Ballmer Group, has given $80 million to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}