She was the best and rarest species of nerd, whose enthusiasm was eager and sincere and open and inviting. She wanted you to love the stuff she loved, and supplied you hard incontrovertible evidence to support her thesis. Jesus, she was the best of us. Fuck.

#PetsOfPublicRadio is my favorite public media tradition and was hands down my favorite part of working at VPR during pledge drives. TL'DR: I am really just in public media for the pet pics.

I will never be cool enough to be an NPR Intern.

🎉 If you're feeling overwhelmed by the news rn -- this update is so needed: check out the "big topics in the news" section to catch up on what you want to know, and then pop over to the "podcast" section to discover your next favorite guilty pleasure pod and decompress. 😘

Your Friday moment of joy: Happy #nationaldogday 🐶🐕🐩🐕‍🦺 npr.org/2021/08/26/103… w/ Nell Clark

I can't get over what an amazing job Mikaela Lefrak and co. have done with Vermont Edition of late but this interview with Noah Kahan about 'Stick Season' (i.e. the song that's all over your FYP on TikTok these days) is a perfect example. 💚💚💚

On this morning please become a member of your local public media station or give an extra gift. Journalism is a lifeline. It's non-optional in a democracy and a society based on facts and reason. I know it feels like you can have it for free. Please reject that bull$#% and give.

killing DCist is a huge mistake and a tragedy

Welp. There goes my DCist bylines 🙃

I have literally never hated a popup more. Some of the best people in public media are now out of work and one of the most incredible public services is offline.

This morning, WAMU 88.5 management informed us they are laying off 15 vital people from our organization. These individuals are the lifeblood of our journalism. Our hearts are broken. We can’t believe we are losing our colleagues and friends.

Hi. I’m one of the DCist WAMU 88.5 reporters laid off. I’m deeply saddened to no longer cover the immigrant communities who make D.C. & our region so special. I’m beyond proud of the reporting I’ve done on air and our website since starting this beat from scratch 2 years ago ❤️

Editing Jenny on this beat was one of the highlights of my whole career. Such a smart, empathetic reporter and truly at the very beginning of what should have been a historic run reporting on this city. This decision boggles my mind.

WAMU saying it wants to focus on podcasts is so funny to me. I'm laughing like Ciara in that one video. I'm CHORTLING.

Jacob Fenston WAMU 88.5 WAMU: Let's pivot to what we do best -- audio! Also WAMU: Lays off one of thier best audio reporters of all time. Your stories were so thoroughly reported. Complicated topics made easy to understand. And you painted such a picture with audio. So sorry, Jacob. Mind-boggling.

On Monday 1A is going to be talking about the decline of local news across the country and what it means for our democracy. We'd love to hear what you think! How important is local news to you? Email me a voice memo: [email protected] or call us at 855-236-1212.

Still reeling at the enormous and unnecessary cruelty of completely erasing decades of D.C. history by wiping the entire DCist archive off the face of the internet. We should be able to access our clips and you (readers) should be able to look back on that historical record