The free, digital-only Nantucket Current has succeeded in competing with its paid print rival, the Inquirer and Mirror, with an ad-supported newsletter that reaches 20,000 subscribers. Aidan Ryan reports in The Boston Globe: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/31/b...

For my last story of 2025, I profiled the Nantucket Current, a four-year-old digital publication that has become a dominant source of news on the island for its mix of breaking news, viral stories that reach international audiences, and popular Instagram page. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/31/b...

New: Brian McGrory is returning to The Boston Globe as editor. He previously served in the top job from 2012 to 2023. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/15/b...

New: Nancy Barnes is stepping down as editor of The Boston Globe at the end of next week. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/12/b...

What does PBS Kids look like after federal funding cuts? - 30% of staff laid off this year - Expect half the number of new shows after next slate is released - Likely to cut ability to play PBS Kids games offline My latest for @bostonglobe.com: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/07/b...

For @bostonglobe.com, I'm looking to speak to parents about their children's media habits and whether they're concerned about funding cuts that have impacted PBS Kids, GBH Kids, and other stations. If you're a parent, please consider filling out the survey here: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/b...

Pleasure chatting with @aidanryan.bsky.social 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. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/11/b...

New at Media Nation: The Plymouth Independent names a Pulitzer winner as its next editor. dankennedy.net/2025/11/07/t...

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. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/b...

Fascinating story about how @thecoolidge.bsky.social is one of four theaters in the world to show One Battle After Another in VistaVision, including the tech needed to pull it off and its connection to PTA. One of my favorite theater experiences in recent years! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/25/a...

the DOJ atty (& 2x Harvard grad) who suggested Harvard showed "wanton indifference to antisemitism" once wrote a paper from the perspective of Hitler & expressed admiration for Mein Kampf stunning reporting from @hilaryburns.bsky.social @talkopan.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...

EEOC charge vs. Harvard "backs [its claim] up almost exclusively by showing a demographic shift and not how that shift occurred...effectively relying on a...legal theory known as disparate impact." But "Trump signed an executive order in April that prohibited federal agencies from using the theory."

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. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/18/m...

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 / @aidanryan.bsky.social ) www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/26/n...

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/ @aidanryan.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/05/n...

Knowing May Mailman: Meet the Harvard Law alum at the center of the White House’s campaign against Harvard W/ @aidanryan.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/26/n...

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

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. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/08/b...

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. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/18/b...

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/ @brookehaus.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/11/b...

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? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/04/b...

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. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/04/b...

President Trump took yet another step Tuesday to place NPR and PBS at the center of his broader clash with major cultural institutions, formally asking Congress to take back the $1.1 billion it has set aside for all public broadcasters for the next two years.

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

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. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/02/b...

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. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/25/b...

BREAKING: NPR and three Colorado public radio stations are suing the Trump administration over the president's executive order seeking to ban the use of federal money for NPR and PBS.

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. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/25/b...

Staff at Hearst Connecticut Media Group voted to unionize on Thursday, nine months after they first announced plans to form a union. www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

New: GBH is laying off 10 employees from global news and documentary 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 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/09/b...

The Boston Globe was named a finalist in three Pulitzer Prize categories today: editorial writing, illustrated reporting and commentary, and public service. The other New England outlet recognized was GBH's Frontline, which was a finalist for investigative reporting along with the Associated Press.

Wild story that shows how even student news outlets can be targeted by scammers who publish AI slop, thanks in this case to a lapsed domain name.

Statement from CPB chief executive Patricia Harrison: "CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority. Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/01/n...

Geeta Anand, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and most recently the dean of the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, has been named as the next editor-in-chief of VTDigger. vtdigger.org/2025/04/30/g...

Cutting federal funding wouldn't just threaten smaller public media orgs, such as New England community radio stations. The impact would ripple across public media — putting national shows, shared music licensing costs, and more at risk. My latest: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/22/b...

scoop: NPR is mobilizing. In response to White House plan to rescind federal funding, NPR tells member stations it is pushing up its timeline. "We strongly urge you to communicate and meet with your Members of Congress this week."

The National Trust for Local News, which owns most of Maine's daily newspapers including the @PressHerald and the @sunjournal, has hired @TheBuffaloNews publisher Tom Wiley as its next CEO. www.pressherald.com/2025/04/21/n...

The White House is planning to ask Congress to rescind $1.1 billion in funding for public media. But it's just one of the ways that the Trump admin and Republican lawmakers are targeting NPR, PBS, and their member stations. My story @bostonglobe.com: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/16/b...

Scoop: Michael Levy, the executive vice president and COO at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, resigned last week, citing health reasons. His exit comes amid the most serious threat to government funding for public media in decades. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/10/b...

Amid the Trump admin's crackdown on college protesters including Rümeysa Öztürk, who co-wrote an op-ed at Tufts and was detained by ICE, student journalists are grappling with how to to cover campus without censoring their work or endangering their peers. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/04/b...

An update: newsprint, along with other USMCA-compliant goods, was exempt from Trump's sweeping tariffs yesterday. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/03/b...

My latest @bostonglobe.com: Trump's tariffs could have an outsized effect on New England newspapers, as many rely entirely on Canadian newsprint. Prolonged tariffs, if enacted, could force some publishers to cut staff, print editions, or even shut down. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/01/b...

WCVB announces new president and general manager www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/27/b...

As the National Trust for Local News approaches an inflection point, Nieman Lab reporters @sarahscire.com and @speppered.bsky.social talked to people at every level of the organization, finding a nonprofit that has great promise but is recalibrating after some missteps and failures.

Lovely “Perspectives” tribute in the Globe Magazine on Joe Castiglione by Jamie “Producer Extraordinaire” McClellan. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/24/m...?

How about a little diversion from politics: how do you start building a collection of movies on discs? @aidanryan.bsky.social talks physical media collections with @sonnybunch.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-bui...

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“And there’s a lot not available, seemingly more every week: David Lynch’s WILD AT HEART, Elaine May’s THE HEARTBREAK KID and one of my favorite musicals, Bob Fosse’s ALL THAT JAZZ, can’t even be rented on demand. If your only way of seeing movies is by streaming, it’s as if they never existed.”

Boston Globe Media and NESN have canceled the Globe's weekday TV show, which it launched in 2023, and the Globe laid off four employees. They will continue to partner on a weekly sports show, and the Globe plans to invest more in video across platforms. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/06/b...