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Foundation Highlights

  • Learn about AMERICAN EXPERIENCE FILM's new documentary, American Coup: Wilmington 1898, the hidden story of an American insurrection and a deadly race massacre in North Carolina.
  • Sam Brewer was recently appointed the General Manager of GBH Music, GBH’s award-winning classical music and jazz enterprise, including CRB Classical 99.5, Jazz on 89.7, and classical.org. We sat down with Sam to learn more about what’s next for GBH Music and what his daughter is putting on his playlist.
  • GBH and The Culture Show have launched a new initiative called Community Canvas, which spotlights the work of local artists and photographers by displaying their artwork on the GBH Digital Mural over the Mass Pike. The first artist to be featured, MassArt student Ari Bowman, said he is “super honored.” Read more about this unique community outreach project.
  • Question and answer with GBH News's statewide & features editor, Jennifer Moore, who will now lead the Connecting the Commonwealth initiative.
  • With a new school year underway and a time when civics education is on a decline in our public schools, GBH Education, in collaboration with PBS, has created the Civics Collection, a new resource for educators across the country.
  • FRONTLINE's documentary series, The Choice, brings viewers into the personal lives and careers of the presidential candidates each election cycle. Learn more from filmmaker Michael Kirk.
  • Meet Tinku Ray, the newly appointed Executive Editor of The World, public radio's longest running daily global news program. A career journalist with over 30 years of experience, Tinku has dabbled in every role in broadcast journalism—producer, reporter, editor, and host. She also owns a farm in northeastern India that she hopes to convert to an organic retreat someday. We sat down with her to learn more.
  • The new series SEA CHANGE: The Gulf of Maine, A NOVA Special Presentation offers an eye-opening journey into the abundant web of life within the Gulf of Maine, one of the world’s most complex and productive marine environments. Premiering on July 24, the series sheds light on a body of water that is warming faster than 97% of the global ocean, serving as a microcosm for what's happening to sea life, fisheries, jobs, and human culture. GBH’s Executive Producer of Lifestyle Programming Laurie Donnelly and Vice President of National Programming John Bredar told us about what’s special about the gulf and the series.
  • For Iranian dissidents, the consequences of speaking out can be deadly. “Lethal Dissent,” a new nine-part podcast from The World, GBH’s and PRX’s global news radio program, investigates the price and peril that Iranian dissidents face for speaking against their government and follows the secret operatives who seek to silence them. We spoke with producer Christopher Harland-Dunaway about the series, a collaboration with "On Spec," a documentary podcast based in Istanbul, Turkey.
  • You may recognize Dan Lothian as the executive producer of The World, the global news program on weekday afternoons on GBH 89.7. Within the last month, he has stepped into the newly created role of editor-in-chief for GBH News and The World. Read on to find out more about him, who his role model is, what he’s reading, and more!