GBH announced Thursday that it is eliminating 15 positions, with some of the affected employees leaving immediately and others staying on through December 2025 or January 2026.
The cuts include jobs in kids’ projects, finance, marketing and technology, according to GBH President and CEO Susan Goldberg.
“The loss of federal funding continues to ripple through our business,” Goldberg said in a statement.
“We’re grateful for their contributions and that of our entire staff as we reimagine our work to meet this unprecedented moment and transform our business for the future,” Goldberg added. “We remain committed to our mission and the communities we serve, while also feeling appreciated by our audiences.”
The financial framework within which GBH and other public-media entities have operated for decades was upended in July when Congress voted to pull back $1.1 billion previously appropriated for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funded PBS, NPR, and individual stations across the country. At the time, Goldberg described this rescission of funds as a “seismic event” that would deeply disrupt GBH’s business model.
In Fiscal Year 2026, which began in October, GBH was slated to receive about $18 million dollars — or approximately 8 percent of its budget — from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has now effectively ceased to exist.
That loss of direct funding only represented one aspect of rescission’s consequences for GBH.
Historically, GBH has produced national television programs like FRONTLINE, NOVA, American Experience, Antiques Roadshow and Masterpiece with funding provided by PBS. That funding, in turn, was drawn from dues paid to PBS by member stations across the country, some of which are now faced with cutbacks or even closure.
After Congress voted for rescission, GBH announced that it was laying off 13 employees at American Experience and temporarily pausing the production of new American Experience documentaries.
“When Congress clawed back $1.1 billion of federal funding, there are going to be impacts,” Goldberg told GBH News at the time. “And they are going to ripple across the system from coast to coast, and it will affect people no matter what their zip code or income or interest. ... When public funding goes away, there is no way to make up that money.”
Job cuts at GBH preceded rescission. Prior to the American Experience layoffs, GBH had cut 54 positions in 2025 and more than 30 in 2024, when the organization faced a $7 million budget gap.
Before rescission, GBH was also impacted by the Trump administration’s termination of the “Ready To Learn” grant, which was administered by CPB and funded children’s programming at stations across the country.
Faced with the loss of federal funding, GBH has now launched an aggressive three-year, $225 million “Fund the Future” campaign aimed at shoring up the organization’s long-term fiscal stability.
This story was reported by Adam Reilly and edited by Senior Politics Editor Azita Ghahramani and Senior Assignment Editor Matt Baskin. No WGBH Educational Foundation official or GBH News executive reviewed this story before it was posted publicly.
