Aidan Ryan

@aidanfitzryan

media reporter @bostonglobe • previously @theinformation • tips to [email protected] and aidanfitzryan.13 on signal

Boston, Mass.

Joined January 2018

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Aidan Ryan@aidanfitzryan · Mar 5

My @BostonGlobeMag debut! I wrote about physical media and why some Gen Zers — like myself — are buying their favorite films on DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K Ultra HD. Many are tired of streaming and want to be able to rewatch beloved movies whenever they want. bostonglobe.com/2025/03/05/mag…

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Aidan Ryan@aidanfitzryan · Jun 12

Harvard's resistance to the Trump administration has been aided by an all-out media blitz, with the university helping to spotlight faculty whose research is in peril and dispatching Pres. Alan Garber on a rare national media tour. w/ @brookehauser bostonglobe.com/2025/06/11/bus…

aidanfitzryan's tweet card. In the months since it became a top target in the administration’s efforts to overhaul higher education, Harvard has activated an all-out media blitz to burnish its image.

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Aidan Ryan@aidanfitzryan · Jul 22

New: GBH to lay off 13 employees from American Experience due to "severe cuts in federal funding for public media," CEO Susan Goldberg said. The layoffs are among the first cuts in public media after Congress rescinded $1.1 billion for public broadcasters. bostonglobe.com/2025/07/22/bus…

aidanfitzryan's tweet card. The layoffs at GBH are among the first immediate cuts in public media after Congress last week approved President Trump’s rescissions package that cuts $1.1 billion for public media.

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Aidan Ryan@aidanfitzryan · Jul 8

A food media scoop: America's Test Kitchen will cease publication of Cook's Country magazine after its October/November issue. The company laid off seven employees, about 3 percent of staff, last month. bostonglobe.com/2025/07/08/bus…

aidanfitzryan's tweet card. It’s the second wave of layoffs in two years for the Boston-based food media company.

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Aidan Ryan@aidanfitzryan · Jun 19

Stoughton's public access channel sued the town in April, alleging it has tried to influence operations because it disliked critical programming about a divisive school proposal. Town officials deny the charges, and say the channel violated their contract. bostonglobe.com/2025/06/18/bus…

aidanfitzryan's tweet card. The lawsuit raises thorny First Amendment questions about the relationship between a public access channel and its local government at a time when such organizations are at greater risk of shutting...

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Aidan Ryan@aidanfitzryan · Jun 4

WBUR's inaugural festival, which featured speakers such as Ina Garten, Anthony Fauci, and Roxane Gay, brought in roughly $3.7 million. Facing funding threats, can it help reinvent its business in the long-term? bostonglobe.com/2025/06/04/bus…

aidanfitzryan's tweet card. Tectonic shifts in the media business have forced all news organizations to rapidly adapt to the digital age, including at public media organizations such as WBUR.

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Aidan Ryan@aidanfitzryan · Jun 4

New England public media leaders are urging supporters to rally against federal funding cuts after the White House formally asked Congress to rescind $1.1 billion approved for NPR, PBS, and local stations. bostonglobe.com/2025/06/04/bus…

aidanfitzryan's tweet card. Smaller stations would feel the most impact by federal cuts, but larger stations such as GBH and WBUR would also be affected.

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Aidan Ryan@aidanfitzryan · Jun 2

A few GBH updates: - Layoffs heavily impacted the children’s media and education department, which suffered from the Trump admin canceling the Ready to Learn grant program - Eight staffers from “The World” radio program were laid off - Two newsroom employees were laid off

AAidan Ryan@aidanfitzryan · Jun 2

GBH is laying off 45 employees, about 6 percent of its staff, due to federal funding cuts and rising costs as revenue remains flat. The job cuts come less than a month after it laid off nine employees from its WORLD Channel. bostonglobe.com/2025/06/02/bus…

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Aidan Ryan@aidanfitzryan · Jun 2

aidanfitzryan's tweet card. Combined with layoffs last month at WORLD Channel, the cuts amount to 7 percent of GBH’s total workforce.

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David Folkenflik@davidfolkenflik · May 27

NEWS: NPR and three Colorado public radio stations sue Trump White House over effort to ban federal funding for NPR & PBS The lawsuit calls Trump's executive order "textbook retaliation" for protected free speech - threatening public radio My story npr.org/2025/05/27/nx-…

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Aidan Ryan@aidanfitzryan · May 25

Players steer an imaginary car through Google Street View in Internet Roadtrip, an online game that launched this month. While "driving" through Maine, users tuned into WBOR, giving the Bowdoin student radio station a legion of new fans across the globe. bostonglobe.com/2025/05/25/bus…

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Hearst CT Media Group@hearstcmg · May 22

Hearst Connecticut Media Group employees vote to unionize ift.tt/OsAcilL

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Aidan Ryan@aidanfitzryan · May 9

New: GBH is laying off 10 employees from global news and doc channel WORLD after CPB, which paid for half of the channel's costs, cut funding because it wasn't sustainable. The cuts are unrelated to Trump's efforts to cut federal funding for public media bostonglobe.com/2025/05/09/bus…

aidanfitzryan's tweet card. The funding cuts are separate from the Trump administration’s efforts to cut federal financial support for public media, GBH chief executive Susan Goldberg said.

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Aidan Ryan@aidanfitzryan · May 2

Wild story that shows how even student news outlets can be targeted by scammers who publish AI slop, thanks in this case to a lapsed domain name at Emerson's student-run radio station.

MMaggie Harrison Dupré@mags_h11 · May 2

NEW: Since 2023, student journalists at Emerson College's student radio station, WECB, have been battling a digital imposter: an AI zombie site using a stolen WECB web domain -- and the station's likeness -- to churn out Google-ranking AI slop for profit. futurism.com/emerson-colleg…

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Aidan Ryan@aidanfitzryan · May 2

Statement from Corporation for Public Broadcasting CEO Patricia Harrison: "CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority. Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government."

TThe Boston Globe@BostonGlobe · May 2

Trump signs executive order directing federal funding cuts to PBS and NPR trib.al/u5Cftyb

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Aidan Ryan@aidanfitzryan · Apr 30

Geeta Anand, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and most recently the dean of the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, has been named as the next editor-in-chief of VTDigger. vtdigger.org/2025/04/30/gee…

aidanfitzryan's tweet card. The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author is returning to Vermont to lead the nonprofit news organization’s next era of investigative journalism.

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The Boston Globe@BostonGlobe · Apr 22

The executive producer of CBS News' “60 Minutes,” Bill Owens, said that he would resign from the long-running Sunday news program because he had lost his journalistic independence. trib.al/rIKQ1Oa

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Samantha J. Gross@samanthajgross · Apr 22

NPS wipes Boston LGBTQ+ history in quiet web purge bostonglobe.com/2025/04/22/met… via @tianarochon

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Aidan Ryan@aidanfitzryan · Apr 22

Cutting federal funding wouldn't just threaten smaller public media orgs, such as New England community radio stations. The impact would ripple across public media — putting national shows, shared music licensing costs, and more at risk. My latest: bostonglobe.com/2025/04/22/bus…

aidanfitzryan's tweet card. Federal support is the keystone of a funding system that many public media executives say would otherwise be on shaky ground.

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