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 bostonglobe.com/2025/05/09/bus…

Hearst Connecticut Media Group employees vote to unionize ift.tt/OsAcilL

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. bostonglobe.com/2025/05/25/bus…

NEWS: NPR and three Colorado public radio stations sue Trump White House over effort to ban federal funding for NPR & PBS The lawsuit calls Trump's executive order "textbook retaliation" for protected free speech - threatening public radio My story npr.org/2025/05/27/nx-…

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. bostonglobe.com/2025/06/02/bus…

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

New England public media leaders are urging supporters to rally against federal funding cuts after the White House formally asked Congress to rescind $1.1 billion approved for NPR, PBS, and local stations. bostonglobe.com/2025/06/04/bus…

WBUR's inaugural festival, which featured speakers such as Ina Garten, Anthony Fauci, and Roxane Gay, brought in roughly $3.7 million. Facing funding threats, can it help reinvent its business in the long-term? bostonglobe.com/2025/06/04/bus…

Harvard's resistance to the Trump administration has been aided by an all-out media blitz, with the university helping to spotlight faculty whose research is in peril and dispatching Pres. Alan Garber on a rare national media tour. w/ Brooke Hauser bostonglobe.com/2025/06/11/bus…

Stoughton's public access channel sued the town in April, alleging it has tried to influence operations because it disliked critical programming about a divisive school proposal. Town officials deny the charges, and say the channel violated their contract. bostonglobe.com/2025/06/18/bus…

A food media scoop: America's Test Kitchen will cease publication of Cook's Country magazine after its October/November issue. The company laid off seven employees, about 3 percent of staff, last month. bostonglobe.com/2025/07/08/bus…

New: GBH to lay off 13 employees from American Experience due to "severe cuts in federal funding for public media," CEO Susan Goldberg said. The layoffs are among the first cuts in public media after Congress rescinded $1.1 billion for public broadcasters. bostonglobe.com/2025/07/22/bus…

New: Harvard negotiations with the White House have intensified to the point that there is some text under review by the admin, though it's unclear if it's agreed upon by both sides w/ Aidan Ryan bostonglobe.com/2025/08/05/nat…

ICYMI, our profile of and interview with the Harvard Law alum at the center of the WH campaign against Harvard is here, from 2 weeks ago: (w /Aidan Ryan ) bostonglobe.com/2025/07/26/nat…

Trump barred using a practice called disparate impact that uses statistical analysis to prove racial discrimination. But his administration is effectively using the same approach to accuse Harvard of reverse discrimination. Aidan Ryan bostonglobe.com/2025/08/18/met…

New story w/ Hilary Burns: A DOJ lawyer accused Harvard of ‘indifference to antisemitism.’ As a Harvard undergrad he wrote a paper from Hitler’s perspective. bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/met…

Wrote about the state of cultural criticism, and the difficult decisions media outlets have been forced to make around it: nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Fascinating story about how Coolidge Corner Theatre is one of the four theaters in the world to show One Battle After Another on VistaVision, including the tech needed to pull it off and its connection to PTA. One of my favorite theater experiences in recent years! bostonglobe.com/2025/09/25/art…

New: GBH is laying off 15 employees — its fourth round of layoffs this year. Cuts to federal funding continue to hit the public media giant's business hard, as stations across the country grapple with the loss of funds. bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/bus…

Pleasure chatting with Aidan Ryan about leaving national politics for local news in Maine and getting sucked right back into the campaign drama. Great questions about the dynamics between local and national news. bostonglobe.com/2025/11/11/bus…