Aidan Ryan
@aidanryan.bsky.social
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Media reporter at @bostonglobe.com. Tips to [email protected] or aidanfitzryan.13 on Signal. https://www.bostonglobe.com/about/staff-list/staff/aidan-ryan/
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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...
How the Coolidge became one of four theaters in the world to screen ‘One Battle After Another’ in VistaVision - The Boston Globe
The Brookline cinema had an ongoing relationship with director Paul Thomas Anderson.
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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."
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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...
Harvard hiring investigation could upend employment practices for institutions well beyond academia - The Boston Globe
Harvard is now a key target in the conservative movement’s efforts to roll back decades of diversity hiring practices.
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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 The layoffs are among the first cuts in public media after Congress rescinded $1.1 billion in public media funding.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...
GBH to lay off 13 employees from PBS history program American Experience due to federal funding cuts - The Boston Globe
The layoffs at GBH are among first immediate cuts in public media after Congress last week approved President Trump’s rescissions package that cuts $1.1 billion for public media.
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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.
Trump asks Congress to wipe out funding for public broadcasting
President Trump is asking lawmakers to claw back the $1.1 billion in federal subsidies for public broadcasting that Congress approved earlier this year. His request also includes cuts to foreign aid.
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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
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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...
GBH lays off 6 percent of staff due to funding cuts, rising costs, and stagnant revenues - The Boston Globe
Combined with layoffs last month at WORLD Channel, the cuts amount to 7 percent of GBH’s total workforce.
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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...
GBH lays off 6 percent of staff due to funding cuts, rising costs, and stagnant revenues - The Boston Globe
Combined with layoffs last month at WORLD Channel, the cuts amount to 7 percent of GBH’s total workforce.
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NPR @npr.org · May 27
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.
NPR and Colorado public radio stations sue Trump White House
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.
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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...
GBH is laying off 10 employees from global news and documentary channel WORLD due to federal funding cuts - The Boston Globe
The funding cuts are separate from the Trump administration’s efforts to cut federal financial support for public media, GBH chief executive Susan Goldberg said.
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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.
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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.
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NEW: Since 2023, student journalists at Emerson College's student radio station, WECB, have been battling a digital imposter: an AI zombie site using a stolen WECB web domain -- and the station's likeness -- to churn out misinformation-littered AI slop for profit.

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AI Killed the Radio Star

May 2, 9:51 AM EDT by Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scammers Stole the Website for Emerson College's Student Radio Station and Started Running It as a Zombie AI Site

"It undermines our community for lazy profit. Exactly the opposite of our greater goal."

/ Artificial Intelligence/ Ai Slop/ College/ Radio

Image: A skeleton in a suit looking at a computer screen featuring a photo of Richard Gere, with the text "HOMELESS????" overlaid on it. In the background is a radio tower.
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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...
Trump signs executive order directing federal funding cuts to PBS and NPR - The Boston Globe
The order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies “to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS” and further requires that that they work to root out indirect sources ...
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