The Boston Globe / Aidan Ryan
WBUR lays off seven employees, as 24 staffers take buyouts →“The station, which has been grappling with a financial shortfall for months, is also eliminating nine open jobs, pulling back on travel expenses, and will spend less or negotiate lower rates for contract services, [CEO Margaret Low] said.”
Wall Street Journal / Alexandra Bruell
Court Watch / Seamus Hughes
The New York Times / Benjamin Mullin and Jeremy W. Peters
Inside the crisis at NPR →“Internal documents reviewed by The New York Times and interviews with more than two dozen current and former public radio executives show how profoundly the nonprofit is struggling to succeed in the fast-changing media industry. It is grappling with a declining audience and falling revenue — and internal conflict about how to fix it.”
The State News / Alex Walters and Theo Scheer
The best Michigan State University FOIA redactions of 2023-2024 →“The university’s handling of our requests has been extremely frustrating. We’ve dealt with countless unjust denials and redactions that keep information of great importance out of the public eye…But sometimes, the redactions are quite funny — at least to FOIA nerds like us.”
State Press / The State Press Editorial Board
Where's Your Ed At / Ed Zitron
The man who killed Google search →“[Prabhakar Raghavan] is a hall-of-fame rot economist, and one of the many managerial types that have caused immeasurable damage to the Internet in the name of growth and “shareholder value.” And I believe these uber-managers — these ultra-pencil-pushers and growth-hounds — are the forces destroying tech’s ability to innovate.”
The Present Age / Parker Molloy
Toolkits / Shareen Pathak
Why content is becoming the cornerstone of companies’ internal communications →“Companies increasingly view employees as they do external audiences: As people to be engaged with, courted, and communicated with regularly. As a result, a growing number of organizations are developing editorial content aimed specifically at internal audiences. That means content responsibilities are increasingly becoming part of internal communicators’ job descriptions.”
The Verge / Lauren Feiner
Joe Biden has signed the TikTok “ban” bill into law →“The divest-or-ban bill is now law, starting the clock for ByteDance to make its move. The company has an initial nine months to sort out a deal, though the president could extend that another three months if he sees progress.”