Author: Austin Fuller
Univision Los Angeles exec Alejandra Santamaria to lead LAist, Southern California Public Radio
Santamaria takes the helm this month at SCPR, which operates LAist, and replaces CEO Herb Scannell, whose retirement was announced in September.LAist cuts 28 positions with buyouts, layoffs
The station offered the voluntary buyouts in May, with CCO Kristen Muller saying at the time the organization faced a budget shortfall ...Public media’s pivot to local news requires deep change, Wyncote Foundation report finds
Public media’s response to the problems facing local news has not been “commensurate” with the crisis, the report said.New York’s WNYC celebrates 100 years with on-air birthday party
The July 8 event will include a reimagining of the station's first broadcast exactly 100 years earlier.‘The Thistle & Shamrock’ will end Sept. 30 after 40-plus years
"The Thistle & Shamrock" airs on 237 NPR member stations, delving into new and traditional Celtic music through interviews with singers, songwriters ...Vox.com co-founder Melissa Bell will lead Chicago Public Media
Bell, who co-founded Vox.com in 2014 and became publisher of parent company Vox Media in 2016, will take the helm at CPM ...WUNC to end its music stream and HD2 service
Radio listening trends and economics are too challenging to justify acquiring a terrestrial signal for the Triple A music service, says GM ...CPB backs new journalism desk for Alaska’s stations
The two-year grant funds four new reporter positions and three shared editors.Growing costs, falling sponsorship fuel wave of layoffs in pubmedia
Current has tracked more than 400 jobs lost to layoffs or buyouts since March 2023, including at operations as different as NPR, ...New Wisconsin Public Radio station honors late Executive Director Gene Purcell
WEPP, which will begin broadcasting Thursday on 90.7 FM in Rice Lake, Wis., gets its call letters from Purcell’s given name, Eugene ...Detroit PBS lands $7.5M matching gift as it plans new campus
Detroit PBS revealed May 30 the Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation will match up to $7.5 million as the ...Nebraska Public Media receives donation of online news sites
NPM is engaging with freelance writers who have covered arts and culture in the Omaha area to resume publishing online content later ...San Francisco’s KQED eliminates 34 positions
The station is also ending its podcast "Rightnowish."Boston’s GBH lays off 31 staff due to $7M budget gap
GBH is also suspending the shows "Greater Boston," "Talking Politics" and "Basic Black" but plans to “reinvent” them as digital-first programs, said ...Wife of lawmaker critical of Arkansas PBS joins network’s governing board
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced May 6 she had appointed Maria Sullivan to the Arkansas Educational Television Commission.
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