Aidan Ryan

A few GBH updates: - Layoffs heavily impacted the children’s media and education department, which suffered from the Trump admin canceling the Ready to Learn grant program - Eight staffers from “The World” radio program were laid off - Two newsroom employees were laid off

Aidan Ryan @aidanfitzryan

GBH is laying off 45 employees, about 6 percent of its staff, due to federal funding cuts and rising costs as revenue remains flat. The job cuts come less than a month after it laid off nine employees from its WORLD Channel. https://t.co/D75iM9Bxdv

GBH is laying off 45 employees, about 6 percent of its staff, due to federal funding cuts and rising costs as revenue remains flat. The job cuts come less than a month after it laid off nine employees from its WORLD Channel. https://t.co/D75iM9Bxdv

RT @davidfolkenflik: NEWS: NPR and three Colorado public radio stations sue Trump White House over effort to ban federal funding for NPR &…

Players steer an imaginary car through Google Street View in Internet Roadtrip, an online game that launched this month. While "driving" through Maine, users tuned into WBOR, giving the Bowdoin student radio station a legion of new fans across the globe. https://t.co/FiZSPf1UTo

RT @hearstcmg: Hearst Connecticut Media Group employees vote to unionize https://t.co/8uaAUW6YHh

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.

Maggie Harrison Dupré @mags_h11

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."

The Boston Globe @BostonGlobe

Trump signs executive order directing federal funding cuts to PBS and NPR https://t.co/dwci9xtl5O

Geeta Anand, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and most recently the dean of the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, has been named as the next editor-in-chief of VTDigger. https://t.co/cIltIbXeSG

RT @BostonGlobe: The executive producer of CBS News' “60 Minutes,” Bill Owens, said that he would resign from the long-running Sunday news…

RT @samanthajgross: NPS wipes Boston LGBTQ+ history in quiet web purge https://t.co/JmKWBBNsuC via @tianarochon

Cutting federal funding wouldn't just threaten smaller public media orgs, such as New England community radio stations. The impact would ripple across public media — putting national shows, shared music licensing costs, and more at risk. My latest: https://t.co/f2mKmHo0dc

RT @BenMullin: scoop: NPR is mobilizing. In response to White House plan to rescind federal funding, NPR tells member stations it is pushin…

The National Trust for Local News, which owns most of Maine's daily newspapers including the @PressHerald and the @sunjournal, has hired @TheBuffaloNews publisher Tom Wiley as its next CEO. https://t.co/uw7K3ZMWFk

The White House is planning to ask Congress to rescind $1.1 billion in funding for public media. But it's just one of the ways that the Trump admin and Republican lawmakers are targeting NPR, PBS, and their member stations. My story @BostonGlobe: https://t.co/cF5l3C0sux