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Black Columnist, 2 Others Let Go:
New Ownership Makes Changes in Upper Midwest
‘THIS Is How You Do It!” (on Zolan Kanno-Youngs)
Glover’s Milestone Contrasted With Anti-DEI Moves
. . . Anti-DEI Crusade Ensnares Tribes, Wall Street

Reuters: Clean-Air Retreat Hits Black Communities
Journos See ‘Culture of Fear’ at Baltimore Station
The Root to Expand, Hiring New Editor-in-Chief
Podcasts Overtake AM/FM Talk Radio
Hawaii Native Named GM of D.C.’s WPFW
New BET Leader Looks at Sports, Comedy — and News?

Short Takes: “Black Beyond Borders — A global town hall”; Associated Press buyouts; Palestinian journalist killings; Telemundo’s ‘Bad Bunny’ effect; Byron Allen late-night show; Roanoke’s new 30-year-old news outlet owner; Palabra’s Tamoa Calzadilla; HBCU Knight Science Journalism Fellows; Reveal; Astead Herndon; Sahan Journal; J-group buys condo for low-paid reporters

(Homepage photo credit: Harshawn Ratanpal/MPR News)

Columnist Joan Brickner stands with protesters April 1 after her column was pulled by Fargo Communications. (Credit: Harshawn Ratanpal/MPR News)

New Ownership Makes Changes in Upper Midwest

It’s happened again: A new owner purchases a media company and lets go its only Black columnist and two others described as “liberal,” resulting in a protest in the rain and snow from readers. The owner portrays the moves as “strictly a business decision based on data and feedback from our readers.”

The company in question this time is Forum Communications, which owns newspapers and television stations throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, Montana and both Dakotas. Articles are shared among those publications. Their flagship paper, The Forum, is in Fargo, N.D., as Harshawn Ratanpal reported for Minnesota Public Radio.

Columnist Joan Brickner, an African American retired English instructor, was being paid just $75 a week, according to Susie Banikarim, writing Friday in Columbia Journalism Review. Brickner said of the dismissals, “When you are aware of who owns the newspaper, it’s not exactly a surprise, because they are very conservative, But I thought that they would be more evenhanded than that.”

Banikarim added for CJR, “The problem doesn’t really appear to have been about money, however: Earlier this year, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune, Forum Communications bought seven newspapers, putting the number of media outlets under its ownership above thirty-five.”

The other dropped columnists were Jack Zaleski, hired by the Fargo Forum as editorial page editor more than 30 years ago, and Jim Shaw, a journalist in Fargo for almost 50 years.

In addition to laying off the three, the company announced it will be printing the Forum opinion page only twice a week, rather than daily.

Readers march outside of The Forum’s headquarters in Fargo April 1 to protest the laying off of columnists. (Credit: Harshawn Ratanpal/ MPR News)

In her final column, like the others published March 28, Brickner wrote that after the 2024 election, “The Forum clipped my wings, saying that columnists were to limit their focus to local and regional issues or people. I could draw on regional senators’ or representatives’ views on national issues, but I could not address national issues head on.”

“I had a column rejected, for instance, on the anti-DEI agenda. It included a reference to qualified women and minorities fired, while a wrestling executive, Linda McMahon, with a degree in French, was hired to head the Department of Education and a 22–year–old heads anti-terrorism.”

The actions are reminiscent of those at The Washington Post, where owner Jeff Bezos killed the editorial page’s planned endorsement of Kamala Harris for president in the November 2024 election,  then revamped the page with a rightward tilt as longtime columnists and editorial writers resigned.

“I’m disappointed, greatly disappointed,” Brickner said at the April 1 protest. “To find out you’re going to disappear altogether no matter what you write about was … strange. I just hope people keep fighting against any authoritarian demands.”

Shaw said he thinks The Forum’s decisions are part of a more worrying trend.

“Those who dare criticize those in power, those voices are being muffled,” Shaw said, Ratanpal reported. “Stephen Colbert, who’s going to be gone in May. Jimmy Kimmel was gone for a while.” He also cited Bezos’ pulling of the Harris endorsement.

“ ‘It’s far and wide,’ he added. ‘I think people are very much afraid of Donald Trump and what he could do.’ ”

There is some good news: all three columnists plan to keep writing and have fielded offers from other local outlets, CJR said.

Brickner wrote in her final column, “I think of something Dave Chappelle’s mother used to say to him:

“ ‘Sometimes you have to be a lion so you can be the lamb you really are.’ In other words, you may need to develop armor to protect an interior of tender compassion.

“From my mother’s words to his.

“I’m grateful for my time at The Forum. I plan to collect many columns into an anthology, with a few more articles thrown in. Maybe start a Substack column.

“May the lion roar.”

 

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‘THIS Is How You Do It!”

“YES!! A NY Times reporter just REFUSED to be bullied by Trump, and corners him into admitting war crimes. THIS is how you do it!” exclaimed Bill Mitchell, who spent nearly 19 years as a faculty member at the Poynter Institute, the school for journalists.

“Proud of my former journalism ethics student at Northeastern University School of Journalism, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, for his refusal to back down in the face of childish taunts from Trump.”

Kanno-Youngs “just gave a master class on pushing past Trump’s bullying and lying, and getting him on record, admitting the TRUTH,” Mitchell said on social media. Others agreed.

Kanno-Youngs joined the Times Washington Bureau in 2019 from the Wall Street Journal, later becoming a White House correspondent.

On Thursday, the crew of Artemis II participated in a spaceship-to-spaceship call with their counterparts on the International Space Station. (Credit: NASA/YouTube)

Glover’s Milestone Contrasted With Anti-DEI Moves

“At 12 years old, Naia Butler-Craig decided she wanted to be an astronaut,“ David Hood-Nuño wrote Saturday for Reuters. “Each time she walked into St. ​Mark AME Church in Orlando, Florida, and saw the framed photo of Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to travel into space, she knew ‌space was her ultimate goal.

“About 16 years later as a NASA aerospace engineer with a PhD in the same field, she shook the hand of Victor Glover, the first Black man who would pilot a spacecraft around the moon, and told him she was following in his footsteps.

“Almost three months later, Glover launched into space, becoming one of four people to travel farther from Earth than any human being in history as part of NASA’s Artemis II mission around the moon. . . .

“For Butler-Craig, it was an affirmation that her path, and the aspirations for millions of Black Americans who were once denied access to the highest echelons ⁠of academic and human achievement because of the color of their skin, are possible. . . .

“As President Donald Trump’s administration works to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion programs across government and the private sector, Glover’s historic flight has sparked an outpouring of support across social media. Many cited its symbolic power and historical weight in a long arc of Black achievement in aviation and space exploration — and proof that not even the sky is the limit. . . .”

Kim Paul, executive director of the Piikani Lodge Health Institute, opens a gate to the organization’s new 600-acre property near Browning, Mont. Piikani Lodge planned to use federal grant funding to build a community resource center for farmers and ranchers. Cancellation of the funding has thrown the project into uncertainty. (Credit: Lauren Miller, Montana Free Press, CatchLight Local/Report for America)

. . . Anti-DEI Crusade Ensnares Tribes, Wall Street

The U.S. government is extending its crusade against diversity, equity and inclusion to revoke — illegally, some say — millions of dollars in projects for Native American tribes.

In addition, in an underreported ramification of that crusade, Bloomberg News reports that “Being Black on Wall Street Has Gotten Tougher as DEI Disappears.”

Nora Mabie reported April 2 for the Montana Free Press, “Funded through the Biden-era American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, the Increasing Land, Capital and Market Access Program was designed to support ‘underserved’ farmers and ranchers. It awarded about $300 million to 50 grantees in 2023. Forty-nine of those grants were terminated last week.

“At least two additional projects in Montana were affected by the cancellations: a Chippewa Cree Tribe project to purchase land and train young farmers and ranchers how to manage it; and one run by South Dakota-based Four Bands Community Fund that would have trained and financially supported at least 25 low-income agricultural producers in North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana.

“Montana-based awardees called the terminations ‘devastating.’ They also say the grant cancellations were based on a false presumption that tribal initiatives fall under the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) rubric, and that USDA claims of wasteful spending are baseless.

“Asked for comment, a USDA spokesperson said Thursday the agency ‘has worked to clean up the mess left for us by the last Administration. To no surprise, a peek behind the curtain of this Biden-era program revealed the egregious misuse of taxpayer dollars.’

Mable also wrote, “It’s well established in federal law that tribal citizenship is a political classification, not a racial one. In a May 2025 memorandum, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins acknowledged the distinction, writing, ‘the Department’s unique government-to-government relationship’ with tribes and their members ‘are legally distinct from policy-based Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs.’ ”

Meanwhile, Katanga Johnson reported Feb. 10 for Bloomberg, “last year, corporate America took a U-turn amid President Donald Trump’s ire against what he calls ‘illegal DEI.’ Fearing lawsuits, the loss of government contracts and criticism from the administration, businesses began to quickly pivot, downsize or dismantle their diversity efforts.” (Illustration by Alexis Exie, Bloomberg)

“In February 2025, Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser announced she was ending the DEI goals she set out less than three years before, citing an executive order by Trump. Earlier in the month, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon had labeled some DEI programs a waste of money. ‘I saw how we were spending money on some of this stupid s—, and it really pissed me off,’ he said. The following month, his bank renamed its DEI program Diversity, Opportunity & Inclusion, or DOI, ‘because the “e” always meant equal opportunity to us, not equal outcomes.’ . . .

“Some Black bankers who’ve excelled in their roles say they feel less supported in their professional growth now and are struggling amid what they perceive as instances of unfair treatment. What’s more, they worry about what the shift in corporate norms means for those looking to enter the field.

“ ‘What’s lost in the rollback of DEI efforts across financial services is the pipeline of diverse talent, which took so many years to build and support, and had been successful across Wall Street in closing the gap,’ says Bummah Ndeh, 31, a DEI consultant in Washington, DC, who most recently worked at the nonprofit Management Leadership for Tomorrow. ‘Now, aspiring Black professionals may lose out in how they get their foot in at big banks,’ he says, ‘nd those firms may lose out in how their workforce reflects a real-world client base.’ ”

Reuters: Clean-Air Retreat Hits Black Communities

“Barbara Johnson has been fighting coal pollution for decades in her mostly Black neighborhood of North St. Louis as an organizer with Metropolitan Congregations United – one of many activist groups campaigning for cleaner air in a city that has some of the country’s dirtiest,” Valerie Volcovici and Tim McLaughlin reported Friday for Reuters.

“Until recently, Johnson had reason to believe things would improve: tougher federal soot standards adopted in 2024 under the Biden administration were scheduled to go into effect in 2027, requiring plants to ​slash emissions or shut down. That would have forced one of the area’s biggest polluters — Ameren’s Labadie Energy Center power plant — to cut its soot emissions in half to stay in business.

“Johnson’s hopes vanished in February, however, when President Donald Trump’s administration scrapped the standards before they took effect as part of broader efforts to ‌ensure the nation’s grid can meet surging demand from data centers. Now she wonders if she’ll ever get to see the changes she’s been fighting for since her youth. . . .”

The news agency said, “Reuters interviewed 20 air quality activists and health advocates for this story and found ⁠all had identified the AI boom — and the policies supporting it — as the biggest potential threat to U.S. air quality due to its need for power, including from dirty sources like coal.”

The story continued, “The predominantly Black neighborhoods of North St. Louis already have some of the city’s worst air quality. Tiny particles of soot pollution small enough to penetrate the brain and lungs exceed federal safety limits there regularly, according to a Reuters analysis of data tracked by the EPA, thanks to industrial sources along with pollution from nearby highways and rail operations.

“Some 78% of African Americans live within 30 miles of a coal-fired power plant, according to the NAACP, compared to 56% of non-Hispanic whites. Soot pollution from power plants, meanwhile, kills African Americans at a rate that is 25% higher than the national average, according to a 2019 study in the Environmental Science & Technology journal.

” ‘The logic is that we need ⁠cheap electricity in the U.S. But if you look at the rise in healthcare costs for residents in the St. Louis area, this isn’t cheap,’ said Patricia Schuba, who runs a local environmental group that monitors Labadie and three other coal plants. . . .”

Tramon Lucas, president of the Baltimore Association of Black Journalists; Kaye Whitehead, Ph.D., of Loyola University Maryland; and Errin Haines, president of the National Association of Black Journalists, at a town hall BABJ held at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum. (Credit: Faith Spicer)

 Journos See ‘Culture of Fear’ at Baltimore Station

“After more than a decade in broadcast news across the country, Stephon Dingle moved back home to Baltimore in 2022 to work at WJZ-TV, the local CBS station he grew up watching with his grandmother,” Jaisal Noor reported Tuesday for the Baltimore Beat.

“ ‘I wanted to serve this city,’ Dingle said.

“Instead, he found himself navigating a workplace where some current and former employees describe retaliation, discrimination, and a hostile newsroom culture — and where speaking out came with consequences.

“Dingle is one of a group of eight Black journalists whose allegations have escalated into a national rebuke, with leaders from the National Association of Black Journalists disinviting CBS and WJZ from its annual convention in August unless their concerns are addressed. . . .

“In November, the group released its findings that Black journalists alleged ‘a culture of fear.’

“Many of the allegations against WJZ’s leadership specifically name Tanya Black, the station’s vice president and news director, who is Black.”

Tramon Lucas, president of the Baltimore Association of Black Journalists and a digital editor at the Baltimore Banner, “said that fact does not lessen the concerns raised by the coalition.

“In a statement to Baltimore Beat, CBS Television spokesperson Elita Fielder Adjei called the allegations ‘unfounded, unsubstantiated, and flat out false,’ and rejected claims of discrimination.

“Adjei also said CBS ‘has long been committed to editorial excellence, community journalism, and a newsroom that reflects the diverse voices and perspectives of the audience we serve. Black professionals serve across the newsroom and throughout the organization, including roles that shape editorial decisions and storytelling. We’re proud of CBS Baltimore and the people who power it.’ ”

At 1:43:03, a media panel convenes at the National Action Network conference, at which Ashley Allison elaborates on her plans for The Root. (Credit: YouTube)

The Root to Expand, Hiring New Editor-in-Chief

Six months after becoming the first Black owner of The Root, Ashley Allison announced that she is expanding the newsroom and hiring a new editor-in-chief.

Allison was part of a media panel last week at the annual convention of the National Action Network. The session was moderated by the Network’s communications expert, Rachel Noerdlinger, and featured now-independent journalist Don Lemon, formerly of CNN; Jonathan Mahler of The New York Times; Jonathan Capehart and Simone Sanders-Townsend, both of MS NOW; and Benjamin Chavis, DMin., of the National Newspaper Publishers Association.

“I’ll break news here,” Allison said. “We made an announcement. We are expanding our newsroom. It is hard. I don’t sleep at night. The team does not sleep at night. But we are hiring a CEO. We are expanding our newsroom, hiring a new editor-in-chief.

“Our current editor-in-chief [Tatsha Robertson] is going to be head of web. We’re hiring an editor of features, a hire of products we have to grow. Now, I believe this is just a chapter in our book. It’s barely, we haven’t even hit the plot yet of this story that Black folks will write. And this is not how our story ends. And to ensure that that power is to have ownership and dictate and determine who, how, and when. We will tell our story.”

Chart written by Sagar Khillar and updated Jan. 6, 2020

Podcasts Overtake AM/FM Talk Radio

“Podcasts have officially overtaken AM/FM talk radio as the more popular medium for spoken-word audio in the United States, according to Edison Research’s Share of Ear survey,” Daniel Kline reported Thursday for The Street.

“Radio has lost ground quickly, and not just in spoken content.

“Between April and June of 2024, listeners gave 67% of their daily time with ad-supported audio to radio, 19% to podcasts, 11% to streaming audio services, and 3% to satellite radio,” Nielsen shared in its The Record: Q2 U.S. audio listening trends report.

“Radio still has a sizeable audience, but it’s much smaller than it once was which has led to a number of Chapter 11 filings, including an April 8 filing by Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS), first reported Inside Radio.”

Cameron Coats added Friday for Radio Ink, “For the first time in over a year, the total number of licensed radio stations fell, according to the FCC’s quarterly count. As of March 31, AM and FM stations were down 19 from year-end 2025, as commercial losses outpaced continued growth on the noncommercial side.

“AM radio dropped to 4,310 licensed stations, shedding 32 from the December 31 total and extending a decline that has now erased more than 70 stations over the past five quarters. Commercial FM continued its own retreat, falling 15 stations to 6,574 as ownership consolidation and limited new launches keep the band contracting for its sixth consecutive quarter.

“Noncommercial FM remains the one consistent bright spot, adding 28 stations in Q1 to reach 4,783. The pace trails the 278-station gain logged across all of 2025, though single-quarter comparisons to a full year are inherently uneven. Christian radio and faith-based networks continue to account for the bulk of new educational FM licenses.”

Hawaii Native Named GM of D.C.’s WPFW

Shayna Lonoaea (pictured), a Hawaii native who most recently was a community organizer with the Asian/Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project in D.C., has been named general manager of Washington’s listener-supported, commercial-free WPFW radio, the most Black-oriented of the five stations owned by the progressive Pacifica Foundation. She started March 30.

Lonoaea, 33, would be the station’s first non-African American general manager since its founding in 1977.

Though Lonoaea has no broadcast experience, she told Journal-isms Monday that when she arrived in Washington five years ago, she felt as though the station was talking directly to her. “I couldn’t believe they were talking about real issues,” Lonoaea said. “My vision is I just want it to be secure in its foundation, bold in its presentation and unwavering in its commitment to jazz and justice,” the station’s slogan.

The station had an interim manager, Miyuki Williams, since 2024, when Jerry Paris, with a background as a radio engineer, stepped down after 10 years. Lonoaea prefers “they” and “she” as pronouns. “Hawaii has always used gender-neutral language,” Lonoaea explained. She was chosen from among 18 applicants, said Stephanie Wells, Pacifica general director.

Lonoaea is one of the Mahu people, described as “respected individuals in Native Hawaiian culture who embody both male and female spirits, traditionally acting as healers, teachers, and caregivers. Historically recognized as a third gender.”

The new general manager also said she was learning a lot from the staff, some of whom have been at the station for decades, and, aware of the public’s changing tastes in platforms, would be getting more into video and podcast content. She said she would be bringing in new people with that expertise.

New BET Leader Looks at Sports, Comedy — and News?

Louis Carr, the new president of Black Entertainment Television, graduated from Drake University in 1978 with a degree in broadcast journalism, but don’t bet the farm on the cable network once again incorporating news and public affairs. When the astronauts on Artemis II returned to Earth Friday after their historic flight around the moon, BET was showing “Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood,” a “hood comedy” with Shaun Wayans.

Carr told Jabbar Young of Forbes “The Enterprise Zone” Thursday, “When I graduated from college, I wanted to be you, because I thought I had a broadcast journalism degree and I thought I should be in front of a camera to interview people. And that didn’t work out for me because number one, I didn’t want to stay in Des Moines, Iowa, and cut my teeth from a small town and this whole sales thing, I never thought about it. That’s not what I wanted to do. A best friend suggested that I do that. So I think God maneuvered and had his hand in everything that has happened, and I’m grateful.”

Carr has been in BET’s media sales division for 39 years, most recently as president of media sales.

“I educate people on Black culture, Black lifestyle and the influences [it] has on our broader community. I think that when you think about some of the misinformation and the sort of deception that you see in our communities, it’s because people are not informed. They don’t understand they’re getting wrong information and they’re only getting half of the information. So I educate people on Black culture, Black community, Black lifestyle, and the influence it has not only in our communities, but the broader communities.

“And whether that is, we’re looking at sports, we’re looking at comedy, bringing comedy back. So we’re trying a lot of different things to sort of figure out what works in today’s marketplace.

“Because as you know, our consumers are looking for something that they can believe in. Right now, we just lost a civil rights icon, Reverend Jesse Jackson, and they’re looking for what else can we believe in right now? So not only are we in the entertainment business, we’re also in the business of inspiring and motivating our community.”

“One of the things that we’re doing different is we are coming back with a social impact program around mental health.”

Although Carr did not mention news, a BET spokesperson says that door is not closed. “In the interview, Mr. Carr stated that ‘We’re trying a lot of different things to sort of figure out what works in today’s marketplace,” ” Mercedes Smith told Journal-isms. “Therefore, this does not definitively rule out news under his leadership.”

Short Takes

From April 16 to 18, journalists worldwide plan to gather again for the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy. Some are staging “Black Beyond Borders — A global town hall” bringing Black journalists together across continents to explore race, identity, truth, and resistance in today’s shifting political landscape.” Explains Sara Lomax (pictured) of URL Media, “it’s URL and The Maynard Institute who are collaborating on this.  Last year, many of the Black participants at IJF convened for an informal dinner and from that we created a ‘Blacks in Perugia’ whatsapp group. We realized through this group thread that there were a number of submissions for this year’s festival by Black media outlets and journalists that were not accepted by the main festival. In response, we decided to host a conversation that centered Pan-African views and experiences adjacent to the festival. Additionally, given the climate we are facing in the U.S. right now, we felt it was timely and important to forge connections across the diaspora.”

  • “Telemundo has emerged as one of the nation’s hottest news outlets, defying predictions of decline with robust viewership gains,” Meg James reported Saturday for the Los Angeles Times. She also wrote, “Call it the Bad Bunny (pictured) effect: While the Puerto Rican artist’s Super Bowl halftime show in Spanish befuddled scores of viewers, millions of other fans, deeply proud of their Latino roots, were thrilled by his performance celebrating everyday workers. ‘With Bad Bunny’s rise and the Super Bowl, it felt like a shift in values towards the Spanish language,’ said Mark Hugo Lopez, Pew Research Center’s director of race and ethnicity research. ‘It has become a source of cultural pride … and it seems to be impacting the ways in which English-speaking Latinos also think about their identity.’ ”

 

“After ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert‘ ends — as in, one day after — CBS will usher in its next era of late night,” Rick Porter reported April 6 for the Hollywood Reporter. “The network will air ‘Comics Unleashed With Byron Allen’ (pictured) in the 11:35 p.m. beginning May 22, followed by another Allen-produced series, the comedy game show ‘Funny You Should Ask’, at 12:35 a.m. ‘The Late Show’ will sign off on May 21. . . . Notably — especially for CBS’ bottom line — Allen is buying time from the network to air the two shows, with his company, Allen Media Group, selling the available ad spots in the two hours. The change will likely see CBS turn a profit in late night. . . .”

In Virginia, The Roanoke Rambler announced April 6 that Roanoke entrepreneur Ollie Howie (pictured), 30, has joined the weekly online publication as its new owner. The transaction closed March 30. The Roanoke Rambler is an independent, hyper-local and investigative news site.

Tamoa Calzadilla (pictured), a Venezuelan-American investigative journalist and media leader, has been named managing editor of Palabra, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists announced. “Founded in 2019, palabra is a bilingual multimedia platform designed to elevate the voices of Latino journalists and fill critical gaps in coverage.”

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Sahan Journal staff (Credit: Aaron Nesheim)

  • Sahan Journal, a nonprofit newsroom based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, will receive this year’s Columbia Journalism Award and Chao Xiong, director of editorial, will accept the award on behalf of the newsroom during the May 19 Columbia Journalism School graduation ceremony,” the university announced Thursday. “A first-generation Hmong American journalist, he previously spent nearly two decades at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where his reporting contributed to the newspaper’s 2021 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. . . . At the center of its recent work is a relentless focus on immigration enforcement and its consequences. Sahan Journal has tracked ICE activity across Minnesota with depth and consistency, surfacing patterns sometimes missed in national coverage.”


The Provincetown Independent’s Juliet Leary and Jack Styler in front of the three-bedroom condo in Provincetown, where they live with one other reporter. (Credit: Sonya Carson)

  • “Teresa Parker and Ed Miller defied the trend of shrinking local news when they launched The Provincetown Independent newspaper in 2019. But their new, younger employees kept facing one major hurdle: They couldn’t find places to live in the pricey resort town,” Aidan Ryan reported Tuesday for the Boston Globe. “The available housing stock in the vacation destination and LGBTQ haven has been extraordinarily low, and costs are soaring — which led the Indie’s nonprofit partner, the Local Journalism Project, to take an unusual step. It paid just shy of $1.5 million for a three-bedroom, three-bathroom condo in downtown Provincetown that now houses three reporters, who pay below market rates to live year-round in the community they cover. . . .”

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