Aidan Ryan
Media Reporter at The Boston Globe
media reporter @bostonglobe • previously @theinformation • tips to [email protected] and or aidanfitzryan.13 on signal
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Aidan Ryan
President Trump and his supporters have made no secret of their plans to gut public media. In a recent social media post, Trump declared PBS and NPR to be “two horrible and completely biased platforms” that “should be DEFUNDED by Congress, IMMEDIATELY.”This week the threat escalated, as White House officials said they will ask lawmakers to rescind more than $1.1 billion in funding for public broadcasters.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Aidan Ryan
“I’ve been working here for over three decades, and these are times we have never seen before,” said Mike Hiestand, senior legal counsel at the Student Press Law Center.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Aidan Ryan
President Trump’s trade war with Canada is threatening to increase the cost of newsprint — the paper on which newspapers are printed — to the point where some outlets may have to cancel print editions, cut staff, or close down altogether. Some publishers said this could be the final blow to print newspapers that have long suffered from years of declining readership. “I’m left with very few levers to control costs,” said Todd Smith, the fourth generation owner of the Caledonian-Record.
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4 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Aidan Ryan
WCVB-TV Channel 5 announced Thursday that Andrew Vrees will be its new president and general manager after the station’s parent company Hearst Television named Kyle I. Grimes as its executive vice president a day before. Vrees, who was born in Boston and grew up in New Hampshire, most recently held the same roles at Hearst’s Manchester, N.H. affiliate WMUR-TV. The New Hampshire station plans to announce his successor at a later date.
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1 month ago |
bostonglobe.com | Aidan Ryan
The first time President Trump took office, media consumers had a reaction so pronounced that it got its own name: a “Trump bump” of audiences flocking to sources such as news websites and TV programs, which helped those organizations recover some of the readers and viewers they’d lost in past decades. This time around, however, Trump’s ascent has spurred a different kind of response.
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Scoop: Michael Levy, the executive vice president and COO at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, resigned last week, citing health reasons. His exit comes amid the most serious threat to government funding for public media in decades. https://t.co/bgdxcspCTo
RT @brianstelter: Breaking: Trump's move to ban the @AP from events is unconstitutional, US District Judge Trevor McFadden rules: "The Cons…
Amid the Trump admin's crackdown on college protesters including Rümeysa Öztürk, who co-wrote an op-ed at Tufts and was detained by ICE, student journalists are grappling with how to to cover campus without censoring their work or endangering their peers. https://t.co/f4ZcVp09UJ
