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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5 days 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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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Aidan Ryan
“As I have said many times, our best work requires a village of journalists to bring it to life,” Globe editor Nancy Barnes wrote in an email to staff. “Such was the case with our Steward health care work, bringing together journalists from the Spotlight team, the business team, the health care team, visuals, audience, the copy desk, and digital and print designs.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Aidan Ryan
DEDHAM — Temporary fencing and caution tape line the street outside the historic domed building that houses Norfolk County Superior Court. State troopers and other law enforcement officers patrol the area on bikes or on foot. TV crews adjust their cameras for their next shot. The calmer atmosphere, however, doesn’t reflect the case’s growing online audience.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Aidan Ryan
Smaller public media organizations, which rely disproportionately on federal funding, could shut down or no longer be able to pay larger organizations to air national programming. Stations also rely on federal funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for pooled resources such as satellite infrastructure and music licensing — benefits that could go away if taxpayer support were cut.
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4 weeks 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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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