WAMU - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Sat, 24 Feb 2024 13:23:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png WAMU - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 DCist Has Been Shut Down Again, This Time by WAMU https://www.washingtonian.com/2024/02/23/dcist-will-be-shut-down-again-this-time-by-wamu/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dcist-will-be-shut-down-again-this-time-by-wamu https://www.washingtonian.com/2024/02/23/dcist-will-be-shut-down-again-this-time-by-wamu/#respond Fri, 23 Feb 2024 14:57:01 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1677120 DCist has been shut down. Its owner, WAMU, broke the bad news to staffers Friday. A banner appeared over DCist’s homepage Friday morning that says that the site “will no longer publish new content. It advises readers to “visit WAMU.org for local news and programming.” DCist’s archive is unavailable to the public at the moment, […]

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WAMU Reporter Martin Austermuhle Has Moved to Switzerland, and He Has Some Thoughts About DC https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/09/05/wamu-reporter-martin-austermuhle-moved-to-switzerlandand-has-some-thoughts-about-dc/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wamu-reporter-martin-austermuhle-moved-to-switzerlandand-has-some-thoughts-about-dc https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/09/05/wamu-reporter-martin-austermuhle-moved-to-switzerlandand-has-some-thoughts-about-dc/#respond Tue, 05 Sep 2023 16:25:09 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1652844 Martin Austermuhle spent the last 12 years covering the inner workings of District politics and local affairs—first as a blogger for DCist, more recently as a reporter for WAMU. He’s now left for his home country of Switzerland, where he lived before his parents’ careers took him to Latin America. (He’ll be doing communications for […]

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WAMU Hires Erika Pulley-Hayes as GM https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/07/13/wamu-hires-erika-pulley-hayes-as-gm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wamu-hires-erika-pulley-hayes-as-gm Tue, 13 Jul 2021 14:57:23 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1539029 Nearly a year after its general manager resigned amid controversy, WAMU has hired a new leader.  Erika Pulley-Hayes will take charge of WAMU on August 30, following a 16-year career in public media that includes having served as the vice president for radio at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as a member of NPR’s board […]

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You Can Now Get a Cookie Named After Kojo Nnamdi https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/04/07/you-can-now-get-a-cookie-named-after-kojo-nnamdi/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=you-can-now-get-a-cookie-named-after-kojo-nnamdi Wed, 07 Apr 2021 17:59:20 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1489167 The Kojo Nnamdi Show officially ended its 23-year WAMU run on April 1. Although Nnamdi is still hosting The Politics Hour on Fridays, we understand if you miss your daily Kojo fix. Today's the day: "Coco for Kojo" cookies are now available at @BreadFurst! pic.twitter.com/yrWRP14VXZ — The Politics Hour with Kojo Nnamdi (@politicshour) April 6, […]

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“Hot Jazz Saturday Night” Is Back—and Rob Bamberger’s Beard Is Gone https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/02/24/hot-jazz-saturday-night-is-back-and-rob-bambergers-beard-is-gone/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hot-jazz-saturday-night-is-back-and-rob-bambergers-beard-is-gone Wed, 24 Feb 2021 17:30:04 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1437080 The goal was $30,000. That’s how much Rob Bamberger hoped to raise during the December 5, 2020, of Hot Jazz Saturday Night, the three-hour show he hosts each week on WAMU at 7 PM. His brothers back home in Ohio had pulled together a $10,000 challenge grant for the station’s year-end membership drive with two conditions: […]

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WAMU Dismisses Two People as Result of Investigation Into Workplace Culture https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/01/22/wamu-dismisses-two-people-as-result-of-investigation-into-workplace-culture/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wamu-dismisses-two-people-as-result-of-investigation-into-workplace-culture Fri, 22 Jan 2021 17:07:51 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1416248 WAMU has dismissed senior managing editor Zuri Berry and senior editor Jeffrey Katz as a result of investigations into the public radio station’s culture. An email to staff on Friday from chief content officer Monna Kashfi (below) didn’t name the employees WAMU let go and said the firings reflected “ongoing efforts to improve our workplace culture.” Berry, […]

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Martin Di Caro Resurfaces at the Washington Times https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/01/13/martin-di-caro-resurfaces-at-the-washington-times/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=martin-di-caro-resurfaces-at-the-washington-times Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:07:29 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1394772 Martin Di Caro will host a new podcast at the Washington Times, the newspaper announced Wednesday. Di Caro was the subject of a thundering DCist article last year about his time as a transportation reporter at WAMU, when allegations of his misconduct, long the subject of “whisper networks” among women who worked with him, became public. Di Caro […]

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Kojo Nnamdi’s Show Will End in April https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/01/13/kojo-nnamdis-show-will-end-in-april/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kojo-nnamdis-show-will-end-in-april Wed, 13 Jan 2021 14:08:41 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1394030 The Kojo Nnamdi Show will cease production on April 1, WAMU announced Wednesday. Nnamdi has hosted his show since 1998, and it got its current name in 2002. Nnamdi, 76, will continue to host the Friday Politics Hour with Tom Sherwood and host “Kojo in Our Community” events around the region. Don’t look for a local replacement for […]

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American University Seeks to Dismiss the $10 Million Lawsuit Filed by a WAMU Editor Accused of Creating a Hostile Work Environment https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/01/04/defendants-in-wamu-editor-lawsuit-seek-its-dismissal-slapp-american-university/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=defendants-in-wamu-editor-lawsuit-seek-its-dismissal-slapp-american-university Mon, 04 Jan 2021 19:32:37 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1384987 WAMU editor Zuri Berry’s lawsuit against the publication Current, American University, which operates Current as well as WAMU, and six people Berry worked with at WAMU should be dismissed under DC’s anti-SLAPP act, lawyers for the defendants write. Berry, who remains on administrative leave amid an investigation by AU into his coworkers’ claims that he created a hostile work […]

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A WAMU Editor Is Suing Over a Report That He May Have Created a Hostile Work Environment https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/10/16/a-wamu-editor-is-suing-over-a-report-that-he-may-have-created-a-hostile-work-environment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-wamu-editor-is-suing-over-a-report-that-he-may-have-created-a-hostile-work-environment Fri, 16 Oct 2020 23:46:43 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1305932 WAMU senior managing editor Zuri Berry has filed a defamation lawsuit in DC Superior Court against the publication Current, American University, which operates Current as well as WAMU, and six people, including journalists at various news organizations, over an article Current published in July titled “WAMU licensee investigates editor blamed for departures of women of color.” Berry is seeking […]

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