“I have had a great ride over more than 50 years – and now that ride is over,” Wertheimer wrote in a memo to staffers, in which she recalled being one of the first hires on the news side at the time of the network’s debut in 1971, when “the only part of the company that was fully staffed was top management and engineering.”
CBC/Radio-Canada said on Monday that it plans to cut about 600 union and non-union positions over the next year, as the national broadcaster implements cost-saving initiatives. The proposed job cuts will help manage about C$125 million (US$92.32 million) in budget pressures forecast for the 2024–25 fiscal year, the broadcaster said. CBC and Radio-Canada will each reduce about 250 jobs, while the remaining roles will be trimmed from the technology and infrastructure divisions. Additionally, about 200 current vacant positions will be eliminated.
NPR’s top programming executive, Anya Grundmann, announced Monday she will step down at the end of the year after nearly three decades at the network. Her record has been marked by innovations, successes and, of late, sharp setbacks buffeting the industry broadly and the network specifically. NPR has not announced a successor to Grundmann, whose departure will create the latest vacancy in a string of high-level turnovers.
Americano Media, the first national Spanish-language conservative radio and streaming news service, aims to nudge more Latinos to the right.
Exclusives
The nonprofit media organization, which has a staff of about 1,100 people, said the layoffs were required because of a slowdown in advertising and a drop in corporate sponsorships.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A radio reporter taken into custody while covering a demonstration the night two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were shot will not be criminally charged, the […]
In ’64 Quake, Alaskans Turned To AM Broadcaster
A new book — This is Chance!, by Jon Mooalhem — tells the story of a part-time radio reporter and mother of three who rose up to guide Anchorage through the earthquake of unprecedented power that rocked Alaska in 1964. The broadcasts of Genie Chance over KENI-AM were “heroic,” says New York Times reviewer Timothy Egan. She “became the voice of reason, sanity and vital information at a time when Alaska felt as if it had been cut off from the rest of the planet.”
