I'm over at Bluesky now. Laurie Goodwill.bsky.social

The "Prelude to Meistersinger" opened our final concert of MahlerFest 37. Wagner first contemplated an opera about the Mastersingers of Nuremburg in 1845 but it wasn't until a trip to Venice in 1861 where he 'determined at once on the composition." youtu.be/HUVwW_p3YQg

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This is a solid example of when journalists do everything right. Proud of ProPublica both for the stories we publish and those we decide not to publish.

Hey, PBS News. Would be great if you could remember that a lot of your audience is the west coast. I’m watching a segment reporting on a CR which failed in the House several hours ago.

Washington Post Employees Plead for a Summit With Jeff Bezos nytimes.com/2025/01/15/bus…

The new law follows reporting from OPB and ProPublica that underscored the risks and costs associated with a plan to migrate salmon past hydroelectric dams using a giant fish collector and tanker trucks. propublica.org/article/oregon…

FCC chief Brendan Carr launches inquiry into NPR and PBS stations with an eye to help allies on Capitol hill unravel federal funding for public broadcasting My story for NPR: npr.org/2025/01/30/nx-…

.Senator Andy Kim at USAID: "I talked to the security guard just in there. He said he has been given specific orders to prevent employees of USAID from entering the building today. I just find that to be absolutely ridiculous. This is no way to govern."

Bill Owens told the staff in a meeting that CBS was going to send over the transcript on Monday: "The edit is perfectly fine; let’s put that to bed so we can get on with our lives." nytimes.com/2025/02/03/bus…

$400M of Teslas for State Department? Trump admin said it started in Biden White House. I obtained a doc showing the amount Biden's State Department planned to spend on EVs: $483,000. Former WH official on $400M: "I don’t think this is a clerical error" npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-…

Elected leaders are fuming after Multnomah County announced a $104M budget shortfall in its homeless services department – and asked local and state jurisdictions to foot the bill. opb.org/article/2025/0…

Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Within an hour of starting interviews, I had the names of a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl who had died because of decisions by wealthy men in

>⁦Kari Lake⁩ cancels 15-year-lease on new USAGM/VoA HQ that she calls “obscenely expensive” Past agency CFO tells me it saves taxpayers $150M - plus other savings & upgrades At end of my NPR story: npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-… Lake’s statement usagm.gov/2025/03/15/u-s…

He’s a citizen. He’s a lawyer. The Feds tried to take his phone at the border. freep.com/story/news/loc…

news: The Trump administration tried to fire several board members of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS. They sued to stop it. nytimes.com/2025/04/29/bus…

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

New: CPB says NPR's restraining order did not prevail. "It is deeply disappointing that...NPR is forcing CPB to expend scarce funds that could otherwise support stations in defending a lawsuit that has no merit and does not benefit the system."

To understand what's happened at the BBC in the last few days, it helps to look at how it's run and the role of the BBC Board and the BBC Chair. This is our latest video. Produced by Katerina Karelli, graphics by Mesut Ersoz. Further coverage here. bbc.co.uk/news

"[We] at The @WashingtonPost will continue to remind you that one of our colleagues in the not-so-distant past was murdered... That's not something we can just wipe under the rug or forget about." Jason Rezaian, our director of press freedom initiatives, talks to Morning Edition's