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Sociologist @ UMN. I study public media, race, voice, and orgs. Order “Listeners Like Who?” here: https://press.Princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691257426/listeners-like-who with discount code P327

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lauragarbes.bsky.social @lauragarbes.bsky.social · Jul 21

Copy of my book just arrived in the mail today! Feels unreal. You can preorder it here: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

A book cover with title “Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry”

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 5d

How public radio has perpetuated racial inequality since its founding—and how journalists of color are challenging white dominance in the workplace and on the public airwaves.

@lauragarbes.bsky.social's Listeners Like Who? is out now. Explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry by Laura Garbes

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15d

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

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Free Press @freepress.bsky.social · 22d

Civic media is URGENT. 🚨

Free Press' Arin Anderson is with Executive Director of @outliermedia.org, Orlando Bailey, discussing why local news is a public good.

Outlier Media is a shining example of how local newsrooms fill information gaps to meet community needs.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25d

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

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Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 26d

Listen! @lauragarbes.bsky.social talks to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about one of the books of the year “Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry” newbooksnetwork.com/listeners-li...

Laura Garbes, "Listeners Like Who?: Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry" (Princeton UP, 2025) - New Books Network

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lauragarbes.bsky.social @lauragarbes.bsky.social · 25d

Thanks for inviting me on! It was great to get to talk with you about the project

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 26d

WPSU in Pennsylvania becomes the first public media outlet to shut down as a result of the rescission of federal funding.

WPSU TV and radio serves one of the largest geographic coverage areas in the nation, stretching across 24 counties of central Pennsylvania.

Penn State to shutter WPSU, board declines transfer to WHYY

In voting down a proposal to transfer the station to WHYY, trustees expressed concern over a $17 million subsidy and wanted a commitment to hire staff.

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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 27d

This is all making me think of India Walton’s advice to Zohran: “Moderating is what got us here… I pivoted fairly quickly… to try and integrate myself into the party, because I thought that was the way to build a broad-based coalition… It sort of ate away from our message from the inside out.”

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lauragarbes.bsky.social @lauragarbes.bsky.social · 28d

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 (made measurably better through our conversations and writing group time)

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 28d

How public radio has perpetuated racial inequality since its founding—and how journalists of color are challenging white dominance in the workplace and on the public airwaves.

Laura Garbes' Listeners Like Who? is out now. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

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lauragarbes.bsky.social @lauragarbes.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks so much!!

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Current @current.org · 29d

"The vague and subjective criteria of having a story that includes 'good talkers' ... end up favoring experts and guests with experience within and connections to white institutional spaces," writes @lauragarbes.bsky.social. current.org/2025/09/how-...

How journalists of color are expanding radio’s definition of a ‘good talker’

Voice standards can shift to ensure clear, dynamic speech without excluding guests who lack training and experience in institutional spaces.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 29d

Many congratulations to Laura Garbes (University of Minnesota) on the publication of her pathbreaking sociology of the culture, idealism, and contradictions of public media. Out today on Princeton University Press.

Listeners Like Who?

How public radio has perpetuated racial inequality since its founding—and how journalists of color are challenging white dominance in the workplace and on the public airwaves

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lauragarbes.bsky.social @lauragarbes.bsky.social · 29d

In it I argue that public radio should be a public good that gets robust government funding so that it does not need to rely on donors and philanthropists to get by. I also write about how an increasing number of journalists of color in public radio have greatly expanded who the airwaves are for.

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lauragarbes.bsky.social @lauragarbes.bsky.social · 29d

It’s publication day for Listeners Like Who? @princetonupress.bsky.social.

I’m grateful to the journalists that shared their stories with me, the colleagues and friends that read copious drafts, and the early readers of the book. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

A dedication that reads “To the squeaky wheels of public radio”

A book cover of a book entitled “Listeners like Who?” On a wooden table

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Minwoo Jung @minwoojung.bsky.social · Sep 8

My new open-access article in the British Journal of Sociology explores how Korean queer activists envision and enact social change by rethinking “the global”—shifting from UN human rights frameworks to regional solidarities across Asia.

Decolonizing the Global: Contested Cosmopolitanisms in Global Queer Activism

In the last decade, the “decolonial turn” has gained prominence across academic disciplines, challenging inherent Eurocentric knowledge paradigms. Extending these conversations, this paper critically....

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lauragarbes.bsky.social @lauragarbes.bsky.social · Sep 7

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We must protect public media and keep fighting to fund it publicly. I make the case in the @startribune.com that fully publicly funding public media is a racial and economic justice issue.

Opinion | Public media’s ‘elitism’ is a result of funding failures

"Ironically, any elitism that Republicans charge public radio with is a result of their own attacks on the system," Laura Garbes writes.

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Free Press @freepress.bsky.social · Sep 4

If there was ever a time for bold new public infrastructure to support local news and informed communities, this is it.

This is too important to miss.

Join us w/ @reprabb.bsky.social @victorpickard.bsky.social @abigailhiggins.bsky.social @mikerispoli.bsky.social next week.

RSVP: bit.ly/fpabbsoc9

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Danielle Falzon @daniellefalzon.bsky.social · Sep 1

My friend @lauragarbes.bsky.social is brilliant and wrote this amazing book about race, racism, and NPR. You should read it! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Showing how inequality persists even in a “woke” public institution - one that is also being torn apart these days

Support public radio!

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Christina J. Cross @christinajcross.bsky.social · Aug 29

Friends! Inherited Inequality makes its debut Sept 16 🎉

Join me for an open & honest conversation about the power & limits of the two-parent family for improving child outcomes & addressing one of America’s most intractable problems: racial inequality

Hope to see you there!

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UMN Sociology @umnsociology.bsky.social · Aug 27

2025 book publication!

Assistant Professor Laura Garbes authored a recent book titled "Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry."

Check it out!

Listeners Like Who?

How public radio has perpetuated racial inequality since its founding—and how journalists of color are challenging white dominance in the workplace and on the public airwaves

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Current @current.org · Aug 27

“It’s the little stations like us that are going to go away because, for instance, about 60% of our budget came from the CPB grant,” said a station leader. (Via @statesnewsroom.com) current.org/2025/08/trib...

Tribal radio stations wait on $9M pledged in congressional handshake deal

“I certainly can’t budget anything that I don’t know is coming, so I’m definitely not planning for it now,” said one station leader.

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · Aug 20

How school choice reproduces inequality by creating gendered and socioeconomic decision-making labor for parents.

Kindergarten Panic by Bailey A. Brown is out now. Order your copy today: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

#Education #Sociology

Kindergarten Panic: Parental Anxiety and School Choice Inequality by Bailey A. Brown

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · Aug 19

It's a start. We won't really *save* public media until we address board composition and governance, but any port in a storm.

Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · Aug 19

The Knight Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and others unveil the Public Media Bridge Fund, providing $26.5M+ to help CPB radio and TV stations avoid closure (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)

Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · Aug 13

Delighted to have interviewed with WBUR's Meghna Chakrabarti "On Point." First half discusses the historical intricacies of the US public media ecosystem. Second half I tried to detail how the GOP rescission bill was designed to attack democratic media.

Can public media survive?

The U.S. Congress cut federal funding for public media, shuttering the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. What does that mean for the future of local news across the country?

www.wbur.org

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