''Current'' is an American

trade journal A trade magazine, also called a trade journal or trade paper (colloquially or disparagingly a trade rag), is a magazine or newspaper whose target audience is people who work in a particular trade or industry. The collective term for this a ...

that covers

public broadcasting in the United States In the United States, other than a few direct services, public broadcasting is almost entirely decentralized and is not operated by the government, but does receive some government support. Background The U.S. public broadcasting system differs f ...

. It is described by the

Public Broadcasting Service The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia Arlington County, or simply Arlington, is a County (United States), county in the ...

(PBS) as "The most widely read periodical in the field". It was formerly published by ''Current LLC'' and is currently published by the

American University The American University (AU or American) is a Private university, private University charter#Federal, federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Its main campus spans 90-acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, in the Spri ...

School of Communication. The newspaper, founded in 1980, was one of the last creations of the

National Association of Educational Broadcasters The National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB) was a US organization of broadcasters with aims to share or coordinate educational programmes. It was founded as the Association of College and University Broadcasting Stations (ACUBS) i ...

, an association of noncommercial broadcasters dating back to 1925, whose members were leaders in founding PBS and

National Public Radio National Public Radio (NPR) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. It serves as a national Radio syndication, syndicator to a network of more ...

. After the bankrupted NAEB closed in 1981, ''Current'' resumed publication in 1982 as an independent journalistic service of the public television station

WNET WNET (channel 13), branded on-air as Thirteen (stylized as THIRTEEN), is a primary PBS member television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey, United States, serving the New York City area. Owned by The WNET Group (formerly known as the Educ ...

. WNET.org sold ''Current'' to American University School of Communication in 2010.

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* American University Mass media trade magazines Magazines established in 1980 Takoma Park, Maryland Public broadcasting in the United States 2010 mergers and acquisitions {{maryland-newspaper-stub