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WMNF layoffs taken back listen

06/30/10 Seán Kinane
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Tags: wmnf, layoffs, jobs, Unemployment, Media

Last week we reported that this station, WMNF 88.5 FM, was forced to lay off three employees because of a severe budget shortfall. But shortly before broadcast tonight, station manager Jim Bennett announced that because of voluntary staff benefit reductions and a generous donation unrelated to the layoffs, Bennett had notified the three employees that the layoffs were retracted.

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Eternal Optimist listen

06/25/10 Dawn Elliott
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Tags: happiness, Health, Media, books

David Niven's new book, Up, gives a positive answer backed by research, to the notion that life is bad and keeps getting worse.

DN: The number of different ways that life is getting better is quite astounding. The idea behind Up is that, if we think about that, if we pay some attention, it’s not just a matter of trivia, it sustains us, and the things we care about, in family life or career. Any aspect, if we have a little sense of hope and optimism, it’s hard ...

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Facing budget shortfalls WMNF lays off three employees listen

06/23/10 Seán Kinane
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Tags: wmnf, Media, layoffs, jobs, Unemployment

Please note the important update to this story on 30 June: the layoffs were taken back.

The economy is hitting everyone hard, especially media organizations. This radio station, WMNF, 88.5 FM has faced economic difficulties in the past and has made budget cuts over the last few years. But for the first time in the station’s 31-year history, WMNF laid off employees yesterday because of budget cuts. We spoke with station manager J...

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Gulf Oil Spill Community Forum Discusses Long-Term Impacts listen

06/16/10 Allie Wilkinson
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Tags: oil spill, Deepwater Horizon, community, tourism, economic impact, Gulf of Mexico, USF St. Petersburg, ecology, Chemical oil dispersants, Media

More than 900 people crowded into the Palladium Theater last night to hear scientists, politicians, media experts and industry leaders discuss America’s largest, ongoing environmental disaster. WMNF’s Allie Wilkinson reports from St. Petersburg.

Nearly two months to the day since oil started seeping into the Gulf of Mexico the Tampa Bay community came together to discuss the long term implications and solutions relating to the spill. Chuanmin Hu, an Associate Professor at the College of ...

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FCC hears from experts, community listen

04/21/10 Kate Bradshaw
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Tags: FCC, Corporate media, media cross ownership, media conglomeration, Media

Yesterday the Federal Communications Commission held a workshop at the University of South Florida that explored the ups and downs of media cross-ownership. The commission’s possible lift on its limit of how many outlets one company can own in a city did not go over well the audience.

The chairs at USF’s Marshall Center auditorium were sparsely populated, but the passion among attendees was big. Dozens gave public testimony on the virtues of local media. Port Richey resident Mark Scodeman ...

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Live report from FCC hearings on media ownership listen

04/20/10 Seán Kinane & Kate Bradshaw
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Tags: FCC, Media, media conglomeration, USF

The Federal Communications Commission is conducting public hearings today at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

The hearings deal with loosening media cross-ownership rules that currently forbid one company from owning a television station and a newspaper in the same market in most cases.

WMNF is carrying the FCC hearings live on our HD 3 Channel The Source and on Bulls Radio HD 2 until they end, which is scheduled to be 7:30 pm.

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FCC hearings on media ownership tomorrow in Tampa listen

04/19/10 Seán Kinane
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Tags: FCC, Media, media conglomeration

The Federal Communications Commission will hold a public hearing tomorrow in Tampa on media cross ownership.

We will broadcast the full FCC hearings beginning at 3 tomorrow afternoon on our HD3 channel The Source. You can hear it on an HD radio or on the internet here.

For a preview, we spoke with former WMNF reporter Brandy Doyle, who now works for the Prometheus Radio Project.

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PBS Newshour's spotlight city tour rolls into St Petersburg to focus on the changing media landscape listen

04/13/10 Tom Baur
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Tags: Media, Public broadcasting system, national public radio, corporation for public broadcasting, healthcare, journalism

Newspapers are laying-off reporters. More people are going online to find their news. WMNF’s Tom Baur reports from St Petersburg where a panel of experts discussed “The Changing Media Landscape.”

As part of a five city two year national tour PBS Newshour hosted a forum today at the Poynter Institute for Interactive Media in St Petersburg. Their news anchor Gwen Ifill moderated a panel of local media newsmakers co-hosted by [WEDU](www.wedu.or...

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Tebow Super Bowl ad protested by women’s groups listen

02/04/10 Mary Glenney
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Tags: Media, abortion rights, football, Super Bowl, right wing activity

This morning in Washington President Barack Obama spoke at the annual National Prayer Breakfast. Former University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow also participated. During this Sunday’s Super Bowl, CBS will air an ad featuring Tebow and his mother. The right-wing group Focus on the Family has produced the ad, which is widely believed to advocate against abortion.

CBS’ decision to air the ad has become a focus of protests from many pro-choice and women’s groups, especially since advocacy...

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Arlene Engelhardt hired as Executive Director of Pacifica listen

12/04/09 Seán Kinane
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Tags: Women, Pacifica, Media

WMNF Women’s Show co-host Arlene Engelhardt will host her final Saturday morning show on January 2nd. That’s because she was recently hired as executive director of Pacifica.

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