Aidan Ryan
Media Reporter at The Boston Globe
media reporter @bostonglobe • previously @theinformation • tips to [email protected] and aidanfitzryan.13 on signal
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4 days ago |
bostonglobe.com | Aidan Ryan
GBH is laying off 45 employees, 6 percent of its staff, across multiple departments due to financial challenges, CEO Susan Goldberg told staff on Monday. The cuts come less than a month after GBH laid off nine staff members at WORLD Channel, a television channel that focused on global news, programs, and documentaries. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting cut funding for the channel because it wasn’t sustainable.
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1 week ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Aidan Ryan
Share “I quickly pulled up our servers’ logs and on the graph, everything is spiked,” Daugherty said, adding that the station’s listeners had jumped 100 times the normal audience. He had to tweak the station’s servers, which had reached maximum capacity.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Aidan Ryan
The waning days of the spring semester are typically quiet for WBOR, the student radio station at Maine‘s Bowdoin College, with students focused on taking exams and DJs preparing for their final shows. So when station manager Mason Daugherty got an e-mail this month claiming that more than 1,000 people were currently tuned into WBOR’s digital broadcast, he at first assumed it was a scam.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Mark Arsenault |Aidan Ryan |Shirley Leung
Now the two families are at odds again, but this time the stakes are far higher and could reshape the future of Harvard and higher education. A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.
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4 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Aidan Ryan
GBH is laying off 10 employees from WORLD, a television channel carried by over 200 PBS stations that airs global news, programs, and documentaries, due to funding cuts from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that paid for roughly half of the channel, chief executive Susan Goldberg told staff on Friday.
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New: GBH is laying off 10 employees from global news and doc channel WORLD after CPB, which paid for half of the channel's costs, cut funding because it wasn't sustainable. The cuts are unrelated to Trump's efforts to cut federal funding for public media https://t.co/gBO5GwiX4O
Wild story that shows how even student news outlets can be targeted by scammers who publish AI slop, thanks in this case to a lapsed domain name at Emerson's student-run radio station.
NEW: Since 2023, student journalists at Emerson College's student radio station, WECB, have been battling a digital imposter: an AI zombie site using a stolen WECB web domain -- and the station's likeness -- to churn out Google-ranking AI slop for profit. https://t.co/oiJ3nBQ083 https://t.co/0XIU2rrL6c
Statement from Corporation for Public Broadcasting CEO Patricia Harrison: "CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority. Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government."
Trump signs executive order directing federal funding cuts to PBS and NPR https://t.co/dwci9xtl5O