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Evan Smith, interviewing NPR CEO Katherine Maher at the WBUR Festival, brought up that one critique of public media is inefficiencies in its system. He then started to ask whether Boston needed two public radio stations.
“I’m going to stay way away of that,” Maher said.
New: I wrote about the Lexington Observer, a local outlet with two employees that has made most of its money as a financial intermediary for other news orgs. Its leaders are now debating whether to continue the service, which I haven't seen any other outlet adopt. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/15/b...
The Midcoast Villager has attracted national attention for its cafe, which is expected to be profitable in its first full-year. But layoffs on the news side show how leaders are still fine-tuning the novel approach to local news. My dispatch from Maine: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/30/b...
South Shore News founder Justin Evans faced a significant test when he put up a paywall in April: Would readers pay for AI-generated articles that recap town government and school committee meetings?
Turns out, hundreds would. My latest @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/12/b...
Scoop: More cuts at America's Test Kitchen, which is laying off 24 employees, representing 10 percent of its workforce. Comes three months after it acquired Food52 out of bankruptcy. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/18/b...
Employees at Ocean State Media, Rhode Island's joint NPR and PBS organization, are forming a union with SAG-AFTRA. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/04/b...
VTDigger has named Brendan Kinney as its next CEO www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/06/b...
More GBH News: the Boston public media giant is merging its operations with New England Public Media. While it's owned the Springfield-based organization since its inception in 2019, the two have largely run separately. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/01/b...
