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Margaret Low of WBUR tells us how public radio fits into Boston’s regional...
Margaret Low On this week’s “What Works” podcast, Ellen Clegg and I talk with Margaret Low, the CEO of WBUR, one of Boston’s two major news-oriented public radio stations. Margaret started as CEO in...
View ArticleWBUR leaves Twitter. Will GBH News follow suit?
Update: GBH is staying on Twitter, at least for now. Following NPR’s lead, WBUR Radio, one of Boston’s two major public media news outlets, is leaving Twitter to protest Chief Twit Elon Musk’s recent...
View ArticleGBH will keep tweeting
GBH is sticking with Twitter, at least for now. I just received this statement from spokeswoman Erin Callanan: At this time, GBH is continuing to use Twitter as a platform for sharing trusted content...
View ArticleTalking about the future of local news on ‘Left, Right & Center’
I had a chance to talk about the future of local news on KCRW’s “Left, Right & Center” podcast — as well as offer some analysis of the media’s failures in reporting on that hospital explosion in...
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WBUR’s funding woes are part of a larger challenge facing public radio
WBUR’s CitySpace. Photo via WBUR.org. If any form of media were well-positioned to respond to the decline of large daily newspapers, it was — seemingly — public radio. For one thing, the business model...
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Public radio cutbacks hit Colorado as 15 people lose their jobs
Colorado Public Radio executive editor Kevin Dale. Photo (cc) 2021 by Dan Kennedy. No sooner had I written last week that Colorado Public Radio may be the largest news organization in that state than...
View ArticleWBUR offers buyouts to staff members
Cuts have begun at WBUR Radio (90.9 FM), with CEO Margaret Low announcing that the station needs to reduce spending by $4 million, or about 10%, in the fiscal year that begins July 1. Employees are...
View ArticleGBH becomes the latest public media outlet to eye layoffs
Given what’s going on in public media in general and at WBUR Radio in Boston specifically, this seemed inevitable. Aidan Ryan of The Boston Globe reports that GBH, the television and radio powerhouse,...
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Could Boston’s two newsy public radio stations merge? Plus, local news tidbits.
WBUR’s CitySpace. Photo (cc) 2023 by Todd Van Hoosear Before social media, when blogging was everything, a lot of us wrote what were known as “link blogs” — that is, a running list of links with little...
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The Chicago public media merger, hailed two years ago, hits some serious bumps
Half full or half empty? Photo (cc) 2014 by bradhoc Among the projects that almost made it into “What Works in Community News” was the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Public Media, which merged two years...
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