WERU Special: Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

Host: Matt Murphy

The Maine Monitor and WERU will host Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink filmmaker Rick Goldsmith for a three-day program in Maine, October 8-10. This program is a radio preview of the film, with Matt Murphy hosting Goldsmith and Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting Executive Director Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink is the story of one secretive hedge fund that is plundering America’s newspapers and the journalists who are fighting back. Who will control the future of America’s news ecosystem: Wall Street billionaires concerned only with profit, or those who see journalism as an essential public service and the lifeblood of our democracy?

The Maine Monitor Radio Hour 10/3/24

Host: Kate Cough
Guest: Josh Keefe [email protected]
Production Assistance: Amy Browne

The Maine Monitor Radio Hour is a collaboration between WERU-FM and the Maine Monitor, the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting.

This month: Housing, affordable housing, local resistance.

FMI:
themainemonitor.org/mdi-workforce-housing/

Around Town 10/1/24: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

Maine Department of Marine Resources has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the 2024-2025 Scallop season, and the deadline for public comment is Friday.  The DMR’s proposed changes impact draggers and divers, the dates that the season will start and end by zone,  and targeted closures.   Lower Sheepscot and Damariscotta Rivers in Zone 1 along with Upper Machias Bay, Moosabec Reach and Upper Cranberries in Zone 2 are new proposed targeted closures for recovery and rebuilding. Gouldsboro and Dyers Bay along with Upper Blue Hill Bay are proposed as new limited access areas. FMI: www.maine.gov/dmr – on the Proposed Rulemaking page.  
 
The League of Women Voters, Downeast Chapter, is holding a weekly series of  Hancock County Candidates Nights starting next Monday, October 7th.  The meetings will be held via zoom and there will be a chance to ask questions.  Details about the schedule and candidates — and how to register to attend– can be found at www.lwvme.org and on the League of Women Voters Maine chapter’s facebook page.
 
At the Witherle Memorial Library in Castine this week, the Foreign Affairs Discussion group will look at the foreign policy views of the Presidential candidates from the Democratic, Republican, Green and Libertarian parties, as well as the candidates’ key foreign policy advisers.  All are welcome to join them on Wednesday, October 2nd at 5pm.  You can register for the zoom link — and find links to suggested reading — at  www.witherlelibrary.net.
 
Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry in Ellsworth and Darling’s Chevrolet invite the public to their  Darling’s Drives Out Hunger auction and fundraiser this week.  The event will feature live and silent auction items, raffles, live music, cash bar and heavy hors d’oeuvres. Loaves & Fishes is counting on the auction and celebration to help raise operating funds, build and nourish community partnerships, and spread the word about the pantry’s mission.  Thursday evening, 5-7pm at Darling’s in Ellsworth.  Details and tickets at loavesandfishesellworth.org.

About the host:
Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards for her work in 2017 and 2021.

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Around Town 9/30/24: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

Editor Kate Cough joins us with a sneak peek at the October episode of the Maine Monitor Radio Hour which focuses on Josh Keefe’s in-depth report The hornet’s nest’: How seven wealthy summer residents halted workforce housing on Mount Desert Island.

About the host:
Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards for her work in 2017 and 2021.

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Around Town 9/27/24: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

We head to Belfast where the annual Art Works for Humanity auction is happening this weekend, and Karla Joseph has all the detail.
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About the host:
Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards for her work in 2017 and 2021.

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Climate & Community 9/26/24: Climate Action Rooted in Conversation

Host: Johannah Blackman

Description: Climate & Community speaks with Molly Mulhern, a founding member and co-leader of Camden Climate Action Now (CamdentCAN) about rooting climate action in her town in bimonthly conversations and the power in talking more about climate change. Read the Camden CAN newsletter here: mmulhern.substack.com.

About the Hosts:
Johannah, Brianna, Tanvi, Gus, Corey, and Beth are the team at A Climate to Thrive, a nonprofit working to build a model of community-driven, solutions-focused climate action. Since its origins around a potluck table as concerned neighbors gathered to take action on climate change, A Climate to Thrive, or ACTT, has been supporting solutions on Mount Desert Island and beyond since 2016. Learn more at www.aclimatetothrive.org.

Around Town 9/26/24: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

The latest news from the Shaw Institute in Blue Hill, with Dr. Charles Rolsky, Executive Director and Senior Research Scientist.

About the host:
Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards for her work in 2017 and 2021.

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Around Town 9/25/24: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

Nancy Hathaway on the Blue Hill Peninsula Night Sky Festival, which kicks off on Sunday. 

About the host:
Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards for her work in 2017 and 2021.

Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015
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