#wgbh — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #wgbh, aggregated by home.social.
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35 years ago today a particularly long total #SolarEclipse hit Hawaii and Central and South America - of which astronomers on #MaunaKea made ample use as the legendary #WGBH documentary "Eclipse of th Century" shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRI5FEQbn7o = https://archive.org/details/EclipseoftheCentury (my favorite scene is in minute 45-46 when astronomers rush out of a telescope control room during totality to marvel at the eclipse with their own eyes). See also https://diary4dan.wordpress.com/2016/07/11/heute-vor-25-jahren-bei-der-riesen-sofi-in-mexiko and https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/07/06/das-sind-die-asteroiden-torifune-kamo%ca%bboalewa ("Eine ungewöhnlich lange Totale Sonnenfinsternis") for further memories of that event I've found online 10 years ago and today.
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Our local PBS station, WGBH, did a piece about Liberals looking into their 2nd Amendment rights
https://youtu.be/07TnzNMjR7E?si=kQPe-oO7oD5Wu_e4Nicely done. Fun to see a bunch of folks I know being interviewed.
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In many ways I think the work that WGBH is doing with the continuation of The Big Dig is a what we've wanted Serial to become, a more structured narrative arc and punch. The new season is about a figure in cod fishing, which sounds boring but is also already full of Scarface references. Also it introduced me to Galaxie 500 and Damon & Naomi. #boston #podcast #wgbh
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New report finds language access remains barrier across MA courthouses #wgbh https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-10-23/new-report-finds-language-access-remains-barrier-across-ma-courthouses
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As U.S. Prepares For 250th Celebrations, GBH’s ‘American Experience’ To Pause New Episodes Amid Public Media Federal Funding Cuts
#News #Politics #AmericanExperience #Corporationforpublicbroadcasting #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #GBH #PBS #WGBHhttps://deadline.com/2025/07/american-experience-pbs-federal-funding-1236468541/
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Appeals court temporarily pauses #RumeysaOzturk's transfer to #Vermont
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Live Thu, Mar 6 on “America Unhinged”, plus Stand Up For Science, other recent updates
Hello, democracy lovers! Please join me on America Unhinged at 8pm Eastern on Thursday, March 6, where I will be talking with hosts Francesca Fiorentini and Wajahat Ali about DOGE’s slash-and-burn march through the federal government, what it means for the American people if we don’t stop it, and how we can do that.
I also encourage you to attend a local Stand Up for Science rally at noon Friday local time, either the main rally in Washington DC or one of the 31 other local rallies being held throughout the country. If there’s no SUFS rally near you but you’re on a college campus, there may be someone organizing a SUFS walkout. Ask around or look for flyers, or even organize one yourself!
In other news:
- Please read and share my op-ed published yesterday by The Hill, “I was fired by DOGE, but I am not a victim”.
- I enjoyed talking with hosts Jim Braude and Margery Eagan yesterday on WGBH News’s show Boston Public Radio, broadcast live from the beautiful glass atrium of the Boston Public Library’s central branch (video stream link, audio stream link). If you’re in the Boston area, I encourage you to visit the library to watch one of their broadcasts live, 11am–2pm every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. It’s a fun experience. No tickets required!
- Not terribly exciting, but for the record, my story was reported on CNN’s Outfront show with Erin Burnett on February 21 (transcript), and here’s the published transcript of my appearance on CNN News Central February 26.
#AmericaUnhinged #BostonPublicRadio #CNN #DOGE #StandUpForScience #USDS #VA #WGBH
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Day 7 will be thankful to all our viewers:
https://youtube.com/shorts/YpIKfCkxor4?feature=shared
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[Short Film] Harvesting the Future
"#Agriculture can thrive in the desert. The #TohonoOodham people have used #AkChin farming, a form of #DryFarming, to grow crops for thousands of years. In this short documentary by #WenonaBenally and #SalBaldenegro from Tucson, #Arizona, cultural experts demonstrate these traditional practices and implementations for future community planning."
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXyYr24tRyk&list=PLtiOgIRVt407KkUa7gtlkGIuTD5YU6bqT&index=3#IndigenousKnowledge
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #ClimateChange #WaterIsLife #IndigenousHistory #ClimateChangeSolutions
#PublicTelevision #WGBH #FilmSeries #LegacyOfTheLand #ClimateChange #ChangingClimate #IndigenousFilmmakers #NOVA #ClimateChange #HarvestingTheFuture #FoodSecurity #IndigenousPeoplesDay -
[Short film]: #Megadroughts and #IndigenousVoices
"The Southwestern United States is experiencing a megadrought, but this isn’t the first time people have survived one in the region. By highlighting ideas and practices from #Navajo tradition, this story by Native Outdoors of Colorado Plateau re-centers our relationship to water."
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4rNcEnPk9Q&list=PLtiOgIRVt407KkUa7gtlkGIuTD5YU6bqT&index=7#IndigenousKnowledge
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #ClimateChange #Dineh #Diné #WaterIsLife #IndigenousHistory #ClimateChangeSolutions
#PublicTelevision #WGBH #FilmSeries #LegacyOfTheLand #ClimateChange #ChangingClimate #IndigenousFilmmakers #NOVA #ClimateChange #TraditionalKnowledge #TEK #SolarPunkSunday #TraditionalGardening #NativeAmericanGardening #IndigenousPeoplesDay -
[Short film]: Standing the Heat
"In a journey of reconnection, #NavajoNation filmmaker Steven Tallas explores the #hogan - a small, unassuming traditional structure found across the Navajo Nation. Remaining cool in the summers and warm in the winters, this short film revisits the hogan amid a warming American Southwest."
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11pBhG-9OyY&list=PLtiOgIRVt407KkUa7gtlkGIuTD5YU6bqT&index=5#SolarPunkSunday #KeepingCool #IndigenousKnowledge
#ClimateChange #StandingTheHeat #ClimateChangeSolutions
#PublicTelevision #WGBH #FilmSeries #LegacyOfTheLand #ClimateChange #ChangingClimate #IndigenousFilmmakers #NOVA #TraditionalDesign #ExtremeHeat #BuildingForClimateChange #Diné #Dineh #ClimateChange #IndigenousPeoplesDay -
[Short film] Tides of Tradition
"Communities like the #Unangax̂ rely on traditional #foodways instead of customary, expensive grocery suppliers. This film by Kanesia McGlashan-Price of #Unalaska, #Alaska, follows the journey of a local subsistence hunter and shares the realities of food access in the changing Arctic and the values that inform their harvest."
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN4dee0q378&list=PLtiOgIRVt407KkUa7gtlkGIuTD5YU6bqT&index=4#IndigenousKnowledge
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #ClimateChange #TidesOfTradition #WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife #California #ClimateChangeSolutions
#PublicTelevision #WGBH #FilmSeries #LegacyOfTheLand #ClimateChange #ChangingClimate #ArcticMelt #IndigenousFilmmakers #NOVA #FoodAccess #TraditionalHunting #AnimalProducts #IndigenousPeoplesDay -
[Short Film]: Keepers of the #Coastline – #California’s #Indigenous #MarineStewards
"In 2023, the Tolowa Dee-ni’ people alongside partnering tribes asserted sovereignty over the 700 square miles of their ancestral fisheries. Now in 2024, in this film by Jeremy Charles of Smith River, California, we see how marine science and resource management can be guided by community and culture."
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqga3nTzmjE&list=PLtiOgIRVt407KkUa7gtlkGIuTD5YU6bqT&index=6#IndigenousKnowledge
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #ClimateChange #TolowaDeeni’ #KeepersOfTheCoastline #WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife #California #ClimateChangeSolutions
#PublicTelevision #WGBH #FilmSeries #LegacyOfTheLand #LandBack #IndigenousFilmmakers #NOVA #IndigenousPeoplesDay #AnimalProducts #SolarPunkSunday -
[Short Film]: #SandsOfTime: #CoastalErosion in #SouthernAlaska
"This short documentary by Anna Hoover of #BristolBay, #Alaska, presents the realities of coastal erosion by witnessing the experience of Bristol Bay community members. Interviews, local archives, and ancestral knowledge put the circumstances in stark relief, detailing the communities’ adjustments to the retreating coastline."
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nhQZrBwQTI&list=PLtiOgIRVt407KkUa7gtlkGIuTD5YU6bqT&index=6#IndigenousKnowledge
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #ClimateChange #ClimateChangeSolutions
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[Thread] #NOVA Releases Series of Short Films Produced by #IndigenousFilmmakers
by Barbara Ayotte
November 25, 2024"Honoring Native American Heritage Month, GBH, Vision Maker Media, and NOVA have released a collection of six short documentaries, Legacy of the Land, covering climate change in Native American communities. The first of its kind, the collection includes stories each produced by an Indigenous filmmaker making the series as dynamic and distinct as Native American communities themselves. From Alaska to Arizona, audiences witness the knowledge, tradition, and innovation of people living on the front lines of our changing climate. This series is a companion to NOVA’s film, Sea Change: The Gulf of Maine, which was released in July.
"'This series shines a well-deserved spotlight on Native American climate solutions that are based on Indigenous knowledge and science. The stories provide a rare insight from the perspective of Indigenous filmmakers who have given us privileged access to their communities,' said Laurie Donnelly, GBH Executive Producer."
#IndigenousKnowledge #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #ClimateChange #ClimateChangeSolutions #PublicTelevision #WGBH #FilmSeries #LegacyOfTheLand
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Wow this is sad - it seems the rug was totally pulled out from under these guys The Little Station That Could – Atlantic Public Media #wcai #wgbh #publicradio #journalism
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‘Wall Street Week’ Becomes Weekly TV Newsmagazine in Bloomberg Overhaul
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In this month's edition of the AAPB newsletter, read about how media archival studies students with UCLA’s Center for Preservation of Audiovisual Heritage recovered over one hundred audio files for the archive's "This Way Out" Collection: https://blog.americanarchive.org/2024/07/15/ucla-preservation-perspectives/
#PublicMedia #PublicBroadcasting #AAPB #Archives #MediaArchives #PublicRadio #WGBH #GBH #Digitization #Preservation #ThisWayOut #LGBTQ
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Public Broadcasting: noun - Television and radio programs broadcast to provide information, advice, or entertainment to the public without seeking profit.
But it's also so much more than that.
What does public broadcasting mean to you? Let us know in the comments!
#PublicMedia #PublicBroadcasting #AAPB #Archives #MediaArchives #PublicTV #PublicRadio #WGBH #GBH #Digitization
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PBS and GBH’s ‘Frontline’ Hires Brian Eule As Its New Managing Director (EXCLUSIVE)
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Whew, is it hot out there or is it just our programming? But seriously, keep cool this summer with a refreshing new show! Explore our latest ice cream pairing suggestions and join us in celebrating #NationalIceCreamDay!🍦
#PublicMedia #PublicBroadcasting #AAPB #Archives #MediaArchives #PublicTV #PublicRadio #WGBH #GBH #Digitization #IceCreamPairings
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Headed to the Celtics championship parade today? 🏆☘️
Get pumped with some celebratory inspo from their iconic 1984 championship win!
Courtesy of @gbhnews
#PublicMedia #PublicBroadcasting #AAPB #Archives #MediaArchives #PublicTV #WGBH #GBH #Digitization #Celtics #ChampionshipParade #BostonCeltics #CelticsNation #1984Champions #NBA
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@beadsland TBF, that live audience note came after a couple of years in which the show was produced in-studio / over Zoom / Skype / whatever without and audience Because Covid. Lest we forget.
And that said, I'd soured on WWDTM quite a while before that based on its general inanity.
As for NPR's news programming: I've recently begun listening to WGBH's "The World" again after a hiatus of a decade or more, and one of my realisations is that my mind handles that programme far better than it does NPR's current mainstream news magazines (e.g., Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, etc.).
So far as I can tell, The World's magic is twofold:
- Its principle focus is outside the U.S. bubble.
- It is largely based on pre-recorded segments. That is, EDITED content.
- It has very few sponsorship breaks.
What I'd long since noticed listening to a live NPR affiliate broadcast (both local and sampled from various Internet streams from around the US) is that it seems like about half the time I join a broadcast it's running a sponsorship spot, that is, the promo percentage seems to be approaching 50%, and that much of the programming is live, *which means that all the fussy shit and inconsistency which an editing process drops on the cutting room floor intrudes into the on-the-air segment.
When editing a segment, a reporter and whatever support staff assemble a finished product out of multiple segments of audio and commentary. This means that editing to length happens before an item goes on air. That speech tics get edited out. That it's not necessary to chase the guest(s) off the air in the last minute or so of a segment. And that the reporter, if they're any good at all, can take a stream-of-consciousness discussion and edit it to a consistent narrative.
(That last can be problematic if the narrative is itself constructed. In the better cases, however, a reporter is uncovering a true thread. It's still something you want to watch.)
NPR began its switch to live, and multi-location broadcast origin, following 9/11, when the network realised that its dependence on a single broadcast studio (in Washington, DC) put it at risk of being knocked off-air in a catastrophe ... or violent attack. And there was a desire to make the news magazines more responsive to late-breaking developments. There's something to be said for both points. But how the network has approached both points greatly weakens the overall product in ways that simply tire my brain. Increased reliance on corporate sponsorship puts a further degradation on the net product.
Anyhow, that's my experience, and I'd be really interested in how other people feel comparing NPR (or programming such as the BBC which in many ways has evolved similarly) vs. The World's approach.
I'm aware of some non-English programming which seems to more closely resemble pre-2001 NPR production, particularly Deutschlandfunk.
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In 1996, Emily didn't mince words when her friend's mom wouldn't let them play together because she had two moms.
Hear her contest-winning Mother's Day essay on NewsNight Minnesota: https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-77-27mph5n4?start=630.87&end=753.19
Courtesy of Twin Cities PBS
#PublicMedia #PublicBroadcasting #AAPB #Archives #MediaArchives #PublicTV #WGBH #GBH #Digitization #Pride #PrideMonth #LGBT
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Happy #NationalDonutDay! Throwing it back to one of our favorite classics: the legend behind "time to make the donuts!" 🍩
#publicmedia #publicbroadcasting #aapb #archives #mediaarchives #publictv #wgbh #gbh #digitization #americanhistory #dunkings #dunkin #dunkindonuts #timetomakethedonuts #fredthebaker #NJN #NJPBS