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Employees of the joint organization that operates The Public’s Radio and Rhode Island PBS are being offered voluntary buyouts due to the recent loss of $1.1 million in annual federal funding. “This is ...

“I don’t know how they’re going to do anything now that many of us have left,” said one longtime staffer who took the buyout PROVIDENCE — At least 19 employees at Rhode Island’s recently merged public ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Rhode Island’s public media entities announced they’re offering buyouts to their staff, plus the possibility of additional layoffs down the line, as a result of federal ...

A majority of employees on the editorial team at Ocean State Media, Rhode Island’s joint NPR and PBS organization, voted to form a union with SAG-AFTRA Wednesday. Jessica Maher, SAG-AFTRA’s executive ...

Rhode Island PBS and The Public’s Radio is implementing a voluntary buyout program due to federal funding cuts. The buyout agreement is available to “most of our staff members,” CEO Pam Johnston wrote ...

This article was first published in the Rhode Island Current and is republished here under a Creative Commons license. Rhode Island’s newly created public media entity will not lay off any employees, ...