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 The layoffs are among the first cuts in public media after Congress rescinded $1.1 billion in public media funding.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...

Thank you for having me on!

“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...

NESN staffers were informed this morning that the editorial department will be eliminated as of May 2. Sounds like it could be as many as 50 jobs.

My Boston Globe Magazine debut! I wrote about physical media and why some Gen Zers — like myself — are buying their favorite films on DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K Ultra HD. Many are tired of streaming and want to be able to rewatch beloved movies whenever they want. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/05/m...

The Maine Trust for Local News, which owns the Portland Press Herald, Lewiston Sun Journal, and 20 other papers, is laying off 49 employees and dramatically reducing its print production to save costs and focus more on digital. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/04/b...

Have you changed your news habits since President Trump took office? The Globe wants to hear from you for an upcoming story. You can fill out our survey here. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/26/b...

News: NPR chief diversity officer Keith Woods to retire, amid broad attack on DEI He told colleagues today that he has been planning his retirement since 2023 but delayed after home destroyed last year by Helene. It follows PBS's ouster of DEI execs. www.npr.org/2025/02/26/n...

BREAKING: The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing the First Amendment.

I wrote about how the AP’s presence in New England has diminished over the years. While it’s hiring more journalists and also has photo and video staff, four local reporters recently took buyouts, and RI and VT are currently without traditional reporters. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/16/b...

New England Public Media lays off 13 percent of staff www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/13/b...

Nieman Foundation curator Ann Marie Lipinski announced today she will step down in July after 14 years in the role. nieman.harvard.edu/nieman-found...

"Only seven media outlets were at Fenway South on Tuesday to cover the first day of spring training for the Red Sox ... It’s a sign of two things: the declining state of the media business and the waning interest in the Red Sox." from @peteabeglobe.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/11/s...