• [radio] media death spiral: DC radio station WAMU (fwd)

    From danny burstein@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 23 04:34:09 2024
    radio is like television but witout the pictures,
    soooo, slightly but not dramatically OT

    the local NPR, kind of...

    [Twitter post]

    Elahe Izadi
    @ElaheIzadi
    Ominous email sent to WAMU staff this afternoon about a "new strategic framework" to be announced Friday morning. Their offices will be closed to have the "time and space" to have these convos-- WAMU won't publish anything online, and they're automating starting 8pm.
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    https://twitter.com/ElaheIzadi/status/1760814525714981340

    No word about DCIST.com, which they took over
    a few years after the parent company (Gothamist, etc.)
    was shut down.. But I've got a bad feeling about this _____________________________________________________
    Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
    dannyb@panix.com
    [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

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