casey kelly
@crkelly.bsky.social
The device is waking from sleep mode | Dad | Dog + cat lover | Higher ed comms guy | Recovering public media journalist | Part-time Ph.D. student studying digital preservation of local news | #GoDucks
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I'm so grateful to @lastweektonight.com for bringing much-needed attention to the role that public media plays in our democracy and the safety of American citizens.
If you want to be part of the network working to keep public media alive:
adoptastation.org
If you want to be part of the network working to keep public media alive:
adoptastation.org
Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media
Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.
adoptastation.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I'm so grateful to @lastweektonight.com for bringing much-needed attention to the role that public media plays in our democracy and the safety of American citizens.
If you want to be part of the network working to keep public media alive:
adoptastation.org
If you want to be part of the network working to keep public media alive:
adoptastation.org
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Was thrilled to help consult for this fantastic John Oliver segment on the tragic plight of U.S. public media and why, if we hope to be a democracy, we still need public media for so many things that commercial media will never provide. Deserves a wide viewership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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November 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Was thrilled to help consult for this fantastic John Oliver segment on the tragic plight of U.S. public media and why, if we hope to be a democracy, we still need public media for so many things that commercial media will never provide. Deserves a wide viewership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
That’s the Ducks’ ball!
November 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
That’s the Ducks’ ball!
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Employees of the Maine Trust for Local News launch a drive to expand their union to cover all of their papers. www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/main...
Maine news workers launch one big union - Editor and Publisher
This morning, workers at the statewide Maine Trust for Local News launched their One Big Union campaign.
www.editorandpublisher.com
August 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Employees of the Maine Trust for Local News launch a drive to expand their union to cover all of their papers. www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/main...
Listening to NPR's preview of the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska reminded me of my late friend and longtime AK journalist Jay Barrett, who told me about the time Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II met in Fairbanks. Someone sold shirts that read: "I saw the Pope and the Dope in Fairbanks."
August 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Listening to NPR's preview of the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska reminded me of my late friend and longtime AK journalist Jay Barrett, who told me about the time Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II met in Fairbanks. Someone sold shirts that read: "I saw the Pope and the Dope in Fairbanks."
A Thousand Episodes Deep, @vishkhanna.bsky.social Is Still In Kontrol...
A Thousand Episodes Deep, Vish Khanna Is Still In Kontrol
Ian MacKaye, U.S. Girls, and Cadence Weapon discuss Khanna and 'Kreative Kontrol,' his essential interview podcast.
www.stereogum.com
August 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
A Thousand Episodes Deep, @vishkhanna.bsky.social Is Still In Kontrol...
This is a dark day that will have repercussions for years to come in communities across the U.S., including many in rural areas, that rely on public media as one of the only sources of reliable news and information about local affairs.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the entity which funneled federal funds to public media outlets such as PBS and NPR, will wind down operations by Jan. 2026. Many in the general public have no idea how much programming will be hurt by this. https://loom.ly/zwzBIWI
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Addresses Operations Following Loss of Federal Funding
WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-H) appropriations bill, which excludes funding for CPB for the first time in more than five decades.
cpb.org
August 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This is a dark day that will have repercussions for years to come in communities across the U.S., including many in rural areas, that rely on public media as one of the only sources of reliable news and information about local affairs.
The managing editor of the Juneau Empire, the newspaper serving Alaska's capital city, quit and announced plans to start an online news outlet. He says the paper will now be edited remotely by staff at the Empire's sister paper in Kenai, which is 1,000+ miles (by car) away.
Juneau Empire's managing editor departs, with plans to launch online news nonprofit
Mark Sabbatini said he submitted his resignation letter three weeks ago over disagreements with the publisher, Carpenter Media Group, which bought the paper last year.
www.ktoo.org
June 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The managing editor of the Juneau Empire, the newspaper serving Alaska's capital city, quit and announced plans to start an online news outlet. He says the paper will now be edited remotely by staff at the Empire's sister paper in Kenai, which is 1,000+ miles (by car) away.
This piece captures a lot of my feelings about the impending end of WTF. Maron's announcement that he and McDonald were moving on made a lot of sense for those of us who've been listening for almost the entire run of the show. Also, in light of the changes to podcasting in the past couple years.
There Will Never Be Another 'WTF With Marc Maron' | Defector
I heard Marc Maron announce he was ending his podcast the way that I imagine he’d’ve wanted me to—while walking through my neighborhood in Los Angeles, through wired headphones, just a little too hopp...
defector.com
June 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This piece captures a lot of my feelings about the impending end of WTF. Maron's announcement that he and McDonald were moving on made a lot of sense for those of us who've been listening for almost the entire run of the show. Also, in light of the changes to podcasting in the past couple years.
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Kari Lake said Trump-boosting One America News would provide content for the Voice of America. While horrifying, it’s not the first time the VOA has been explicitly politicized. Listen to the first episode of S2 of The Divided Dial for a 100 years of radio history www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
THE DIVIDED DIAL EPISODE 1: Fishing In The Night | On the Media | WNYC Studios
Season Two of On the Media’s Peabody-winning series The Divided Dial is the untold story of shortwave radio: the way-less-listened to but way-farther-reaching cousin of AM and FM radi...
www.wnycstudios.org
May 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Kari Lake said Trump-boosting One America News would provide content for the Voice of America. While horrifying, it’s not the first time the VOA has been explicitly politicized. Listen to the first episode of S2 of The Divided Dial for a 100 years of radio history www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
De-funding U.S. public media is part and parcel of right wing attacks on noncommercial, fact-based, and service-oriented local journalism, which is already hurting from corporate consolidation, mis/disinformation, and the collapse of traditional advertising.
Trump targets NPR and PBS as public and nonprofit media account for a growing share of local news coverage
Public media can’t replace everything that’s been lost during journalism’s economic crisis. But it has plugged some major holes, particularly at the local level.
theconversation.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
De-funding U.S. public media is part and parcel of right wing attacks on noncommercial, fact-based, and service-oriented local journalism, which is already hurting from corporate consolidation, mis/disinformation, and the collapse of traditional advertising.
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A statement from KTOO's President and General Manager regarding last week's executive order from the Trump Administration.
"This is not about politics. This is about protecting a service that millions of Americans rely on every day — one that has enjoyed bipartisan support for over 50 years."
"This is not about politics. This is about protecting a service that millions of Americans rely on every day — one that has enjoyed bipartisan support for over 50 years."
KTOO Public Media responds to White House executive order attacking public media funding
Presidential action puts funding for local journalism, trusted educational programming, public safety, and community outreach at risk.
www.ktoo.org
May 5, 2025 at 11:52 PM
A statement from KTOO's President and General Manager regarding last week's executive order from the Trump Administration.
"This is not about politics. This is about protecting a service that millions of Americans rely on every day — one that has enjoyed bipartisan support for over 50 years."
"This is not about politics. This is about protecting a service that millions of Americans rely on every day — one that has enjoyed bipartisan support for over 50 years."
"As news consumption migrates more and more to digital platforms, Britt said the endless scrolling can feel lonely. He hopes connecting the paper with the community can help readers understand the decisions behind what goes into making it, and the staff can learn what readers want from them."
Why a Maine newspaper opened its own cafe
It’s the only eatery in the state — maybe the nation — where readers can speak with reporters, editors, the publisher and owner of the local paper.
www.bangordailynews.com
May 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM
"As news consumption migrates more and more to digital platforms, Britt said the endless scrolling can feel lonely. He hopes connecting the paper with the community can help readers understand the decisions behind what goes into making it, and the staff can learn what readers want from them."
A vital and necessary history/defense of the U.S. public media system from @joshshepperd.bsky.social:
Trump and many GOP lawmakers want to end all funding for NPR and PBS − unraveling a US public media system that took a century to build
The precursors of today’s public media programs consisted of professors giving lectures about history and finance.
theconversation.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A vital and necessary history/defense of the U.S. public media system from @joshshepperd.bsky.social:
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CPB and the board members are asking the court to declare that the email has no legal effect and to issue a temporary restraining order. current.org/2025/04/cpb-...
CPB sues Trump over attempted firing of board members - Current
The lawsuit said board members Laura G. Ross, Diane Kaplan and Tom Rothman received an email saying that their positions were terminated.
current.org
April 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
CPB and the board members are asking the court to declare that the email has no legal effect and to issue a temporary restraining order. current.org/2025/04/cpb-...
The grant “was intended to fund the cataloging, digitizing and publishing the material Northeast Historic Film has collected from eight Maine TV collections over the past 35 years.”
They’re trying to erase our social memories.
They’re trying to erase our social memories.
Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport was notified about losing the National Endowment for the Humanities grant in a letter sent just after midnight on April 2.
Maine film archive loses major grant as DOGE cuts take effect
Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport was notified about losing the National Endowment for the Humanities grant in a letter sent on April 2.
www.bangordailynews.com
April 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The grant “was intended to fund the cataloging, digitizing and publishing the material Northeast Historic Film has collected from eight Maine TV collections over the past 35 years.”
They’re trying to erase our social memories.
They’re trying to erase our social memories.
RIP Michael Hurley. I saw him perform once at a pizza place in Portland. I was just listening to this album last weekend.
O My Stars
YouTube video by Michael Hurley - Topic
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April 4, 2025 at 12:51 AM
RIP Michael Hurley. I saw him perform once at a pizza place in Portland. I was just listening to this album last weekend.
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Twenty-four hours into his time, Sen. Booker just passionately defended public science and universities-- which, at their best, are cornerstones of democracy and a powerful tool for collective liberation (which is why they've been so aggressively attacked).
Thank you, Senator.
Thank you, Senator.
April 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Twenty-four hours into his time, Sen. Booker just passionately defended public science and universities-- which, at their best, are cornerstones of democracy and a powerful tool for collective liberation (which is why they've been so aggressively attacked).
Thank you, Senator.
Thank you, Senator.
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Robert W. McChesney for decades wrote about the ways our idealized vision of a “free press” was actually hampered by the power of big business, the wealthy, and government.
Robert W. McChesney, America’s leading left-wing critic of corporate media, has died
After studying the early days of radio, McChesney developed a holistic critique of media structures that exposed how open they were to manipulation by those in power.
buff.ly
March 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Robert W. McChesney for decades wrote about the ways our idealized vision of a “free press” was actually hampered by the power of big business, the wealthy, and government.
Huge loss at a time when we need voices making the case for media reform and against oligarchy. The rest of us will really need to step up our game. Requiescat.
Robert McChesney, the Great Champion of Journalism and Democracy, Has Died
The academic and activist inspired generations of people to challenge corporate power and support a media reform movement that lives on.
www.thenation.com
March 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Huge loss at a time when we need voices making the case for media reform and against oligarchy. The rest of us will really need to step up our game. Requiescat.
The continuing resolution passed by Congress and signed into law earlier this month "allocated $535 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the entity that disburses federal funds to NPR, PBS, and their local stations... That means the recent bill funds the CPB through 2027."
NPR and PBS Leaders Face Grilling Before House DOGE Subcommittee. “We are essential, especially in remote and rural places,” the head of Alaska Public Media testified. www.cjr.org/news/npr-and...
NPR and PBS Leaders Face Grilling Before House DOGE Subcommittee
“We are essential, especially in remote and rural places,” the head of Alaska Public Media testified.
www.cjr.org
March 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The continuing resolution passed by Congress and signed into law earlier this month "allocated $535 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the entity that disburses federal funds to NPR, PBS, and their local stations... That means the recent bill funds the CPB through 2027."
Maine Black Bears! Hockey East champions!
March 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Maine Black Bears! Hockey East champions!
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you really ought to read this.
Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
March 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
you really ought to read this.
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The Fulbright program changed my career, and changed my life (as well as my family's life - my kids got to go to school in Australia).
This makes me both sad and enraged.
It also weakens our nation, because the Fulbright Program helped America develop & cultivate support throughout the world.
This makes me both sad and enraged.
It also weakens our nation, because the Fulbright Program helped America develop & cultivate support throughout the world.
Massive furloughs at IIE, which administers the Fulbright. What is perhaps our country's most successful program for building cultural connections and bringing talent from abroad to the US is in danger of collapse because of this administration.
An Important Update from IIE | IIE
Effective March 14, some IIE team members who work on ECA-funded programs will be furloughed.
www.iie.org
March 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The Fulbright program changed my career, and changed my life (as well as my family's life - my kids got to go to school in Australia).
This makes me both sad and enraged.
It also weakens our nation, because the Fulbright Program helped America develop & cultivate support throughout the world.
This makes me both sad and enraged.
It also weakens our nation, because the Fulbright Program helped America develop & cultivate support throughout the world.