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Martin Austermuhle on WAMU Layoffs
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Length:
32 minutes
Released:
Mar 8, 2024
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Podcast episode
Description
In yet another setback to news reporting, Washington DC public radio station WAMU closes its local news website, DCist, and lays off 16 staffers. Sunil Dasgupta talks with longtime WAMU and DCist reporter Martin Austermuhle about how mismanagement killed a popular news source. Austermuhle left the station on his own a few months before the layoffs and is not bound by a non-disparagement agreement. Music from DC garage punk band, Apollo 66: apollo66rock.com.
Released:
Mar 8, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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