At this time, WBEZ Chicago is remaining on Twitter as one of the ways we share our important independent reporting with our audience in service of the broader public interest. As a public media organization, we have a responsibility to reach as many members of our community as possible with news and information using the tools available to us – and to lead the public conversation through truth and facts.

We are proud to be a trusted source of news and information in Chicago, and we take our role as a cornerstone of our civic community very seriously. WBEZ is an independent, publicly funded news organization, with 86,000 members making mostly modest, affordable individual donations and donors and foundations whose philanthropic gifts allow us to fund our journalism and our operations.

We support NPR’s decision to leave Twitter. We have significant concerns about Twitter’s false labeling of NPR as “government-funded media,” as these actions threaten a free and independent media that is an essential part of our democracy. This is an evolving situation that we will continue to monitor and revisit our own course of action as necessary.