Public Media Bridge Fund Announces $125,000 Investment in Newsletter Platform Quoted Network
Investment supports a newsletter syndication network designed to help local public media organizations grow audience engagement and build new revenue streams.
June 9, 2026 — The Public Media Bridge Fund (Bridge Fund) is investing $125,000 in Quoted Network to help local public media organizations share content, reach broader audiences and build new revenue streams.
Quoted is a nonprofit newsletter platform built for public media organizations. Offered at no cost to stations, the platform enables partners to collaborate and distribute syndicated newsletter content to subscribers nationwide. By aggregating subscribers across markets, Quoted creates the scale necessary to support regional and national sponsors, opening new revenue opportunities for local public media organizations. Participating stations continue using their preferred email newsletter software and maintain full control of subscriber relationships, while benefiting from a collaborative network that expands content offerings and increases audience engagement.
“Newsletters are one of public media’s most valuable ways to connect with audiences and diversify their revenue streams, but too many stations lack the resources to fully realize this opportunity,” said David Gerlach, founder of Quoted Network. “Quoted takes public media’s long history of sharing content across stations through syndication and extends this model into newsletters. With just a few clicks, stations can share audience-focused content, from news and culture to business and lifestyle stories. We are excited to partner with the Bridge Fund to help local public media organizations find innovative and sustainable ways to grow.”
Quoted currently works with five stations reaching a combined 40,000 subscribers, including Classical KING in Seattle, KERA/WRR in Dallas and Ideastream Public Media in Cleveland.
The Quoted pilot is the first in the Bridge Fund’s portfolio of strategic investments that aim to seed innovative, scalable and networked models with the potential to evolve into transformative infrastructure for the public media system. Additional investments will be announced in the coming months.
“This pilot embodies the Bridge Fund’s focus on supporting models that facilitate collaboration and build the relational and operational tissue necessary for a more resilient and adaptable public media system,” said Allie Vanyur, program officer of the Public Media Bridge Fund. “We’re especially interested in solutions that can create value not just for a single organization, but across the public media system. Quoted builds on a tradition of shared content while creating new opportunities for audience growth and revenue generation in the digital era.”
To learn more about Quoted, visit quotednetwork.org.
About Quoted
Quoted Network is a collaborative newsletter platform for public media stations, newsrooms and nonprofits. Organizations can share and discover curated content, build newsletters together around audience interests and unlock sponsorship opportunities made possible by network scale. Quoted is designed to work with an organization’s existing newsletter tools and workflows, helping them grow engagement and revenue with minimal lift. For more information, visit quotednetwork.org.
About Public Media Bridge Fund
The Public Media Bridge Fund, an initiative of Public Media Company, is designed to guide local public media through a crisis moment to a more sustainable, vibrant and impactful future. Launched in 2025, the Bridge Fund has raised over $78 million to date with the mission of maintaining public media service across the country; protecting essential infrastructure for local, nonprofit use; and strengthening system-wide resilience and community value for the long term. The Bridge Fund’s strategy is rooted in a sequential and progressive framework, beginning with stabilization and moving through sustainability with the ultimate goal of transforming the system to solidify public media as a cornerstone of a more connected society. For more information, visit publicmediabridgefund.org.