gbhnews

gbhnews, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to fediverse

Seeing all the new people coming on board to the #fediverse got me thinking: how long have you been on #Mastodon? #poll

gbhnews, 9 months ago to fediverse

📡 for those of you who are just tuning in

GBH News is a PBS/NPR newsroom in Boston, Massachusetts.

We start each day with a greeting, the weather, a news brief, and a poll.

It surprises me when we get people who say they think this is the full output of our newsroom, but of course it is not. We simply care enough about the #fediverse to engage here.

If you want livestreams/video, see here: https://www.youtube.com/c/gbhnews

If you want to do a deep dive, visit our website: https://www.wgbh.org/news/

gbhnews, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to fediverse

👋 Hello! Looks like quite a few more people are coming here as part of a #TwitterMigration. Welcome to the #fediverse!

GBH News is a PBS/NPR station in #Boston, MA. We start the day with a news roundup and a lighthearted poll. #introduction

Are you a #journalist? I wrote Mastodon 101 for Journalists which you can find here: https://lisawilliams.github.io/lisa/tech/2022/11/28/mastodon-101-for-journalists.html

(for those of you who have been here a minute...I'm looking to update that. Suggestions welcome!) #journalism #news

gbhnews, 10 months ago to fediverse

We appreciate your boosts 🙏 It would be fun to go to our year-end meeting and say we have more followers in the #fediverse than we do on Instagram 😁

#news #Newstodon #journalism #journalists

gbhnews, 9 months ago to Pixelfed

so we're on #pixelfed now and we want to follow you

drop yr handles below pls!

(we're here: @gbhnews)

#photography

gbhnews, 8 months ago to random

Here have an alpaca

gbhnews, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

And now for the poll of the day.

Carb battle:

gbhnews, 6 months ago to fediverse

Friends, #fediverse - ians, lend me your ears 👂

I spoke to a very interesting group of people last week about the prospects for Public Social Media.

I feel I should write a brief essay as followup and I am staring forlornly at my text editor.

How shall I explain to people unfamiliar with the #fediverse why it represents a promising opportunity for their organizations?

gbhnews, 22 days ago to disability

Was responding to someone #onhere and thought: "Wait I should tell everybody that."

Did you know @gbhnews is one of the very few newsrooms in the country with a reporter specifically covering the #disability beat?

Her name is Meghan Smith and you can see her excellent work right here: https://www.wgbh.org/people/meghan-smith #journalism

gbhnews, 8 months ago to random

friends

I have discovered a hashtag that I feel might enrich your day

this hashtag is

#bleptember

gbhnews, 4 months ago to fediverse

Hello #fediverse! I hope this toot finds you well.

Dipping in to let you know about 2 things:

1. If you're feeling the holiday blues, avail yourself of the #JoinIn hashtag, where people are sharing their experiences and helping others feel less alone and more supported.

2. Beginning at 6ET, GBH will have its annual #ChristmasEve #Music lineup, starting with jazz, and then on to the inimitable underground rock DJ Oedipus' holiday mix, and then The Nutcracker. ▶️ http://gbh.org

gbhnews, 9 months ago to mastodon

#MASTODON FANCAM!!!!

The day has arrived! We are 10,000 strong!!!!!

I guess this means I have to walk to the top of Great Blue Hill?

Does anyone know when I can do this at a time where I won't be hit with a torrential downpour and/or lightning? Say in the next week or so? I will say hi at the top.

[Backstory: GBH's radio call letters stand for "Great Blue Hill," a hill in Milton. Our transmitter is at the top of this hill].

#fediverse #newstodon

A mastodon logo with the excited exclamation of "10,000!!!!!!" floats across CGI animation of woolly mammoths trekking across a snowy plain

gbhnews, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

say hello to @houstonpublicmedia everybody!

welcome fellow public media folk!!

give 'em a follow, #fediverse friends!

gbhnews, 1 month ago to brainfood

Congratulations to Frontline!

They won this year's Oscar for Best Feature Documentary Film for "20 Days in Mariupol."

See the entire film for free online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvAyykRvPBo #Oscars #documentary #Ukraine #PublicMedia

gbhnews, 8 months ago to boston

It's #Storrowing season

And these folks are out to do something about it https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2023-08-28/new-sign-installed-to-prevent-storrowings-on-charles-river-parkways #Boston

Maintenance workers hang a new "no cars" sign below a "danger, low clearance" sign on Storrow Drive.

gbhnews, 7 months ago to Massachusetts

On this day in 1983, "Every Breath You Take" by the Police was #1 on the Billboard charts.

And #Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis announced the Central Artery Tunnel project - the one we now know as The Big Dig.

This video pairs the audio track of our new #podcast with lo-fi archival footage of what #Boston looked like back when a massive raised interstate highway split the city in half. #urbanism #transit #cities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ9wEUKs4U4

gbhnews, 1 year ago to fediverse

Greetings, #fediverse! I am currently doing a demo of Mastodon for a couple of people in our newsroom. Please excuse our dust.

gbhnews, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to fediverse

ALSO! It is #NewstodonFriday, the day when we feature work from newsrooms that have an active presence in the #fediverse.

If you like seeing news organizations here (as opposed to bot accounts that copy headlines)...make sure to follow a newsroom and boost a story today!

Stories below ⤵️ #news #journalism

gbhnews, 11 months ago to random

Meanwhile, elsewhere on social media: we wanted people to know the backstory on that Woburn, MA police officer who was suspended, let go, and then decertified by the state's Peace Officer Standards & Training (POST) Commission.

Facebook blocked this story for being "against community standards."

We think you should be able to see the facts for yourself.

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2022/10/14/middlesex-da-launches-investigation-into-woburn-cop-who-allegedly-helped-organize-2017-charlottesville-rally #journalism #policereform

gbhnews, 7 months ago to advice

Live someplace where hurricanes are a regular occurrence? Give Bostonians #advice!

#NewEngland rarely gets hurricanes; for example, the last time #Maine was under hurricane watch was 2008.

So for those of you who live in places where hurricanes arrive more frequently, what advice do you have for us?

#Boston #mawx #HurricaneLee #Massachusetts

gbhnews, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to fediverse

Psst!

we got more GBH people on the #fediverse!!

pls give a warm welcome @amarchivepub and introduce them to all the #library folk and and #histodons

@amarchivepub is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and GBH dedicated to preserving the historical record of public media

tune in for all those PBS deep cuts!

gbhnews, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to Halloween

Is #Caturday, and for this last Saturday before #Halloween we are particularly interested in your black cats

But all cats are welcome in our mentions

gbhnews, 9 months ago to fediverse

🌞 Hello #fediverse! This is GBH News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 78F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10 mi.

It's Sunday and so I am bringing you a few notes from the newsroom.

Our investigative team researched the history of Boston's Freedom Trail that isn't generally mentioned on the historical tours that draw thousands each year. It's the history of Black people, including enslaved people. There's an online, interactive map here:

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2023/07/19/the-history-of-enslavement-at-bostons-freedom-trail-sites-is-beginning-to-be-told #histodons

gbhnews, 4 months ago to boston

We heard from
@universalhub that the French Toast Alert is at 3 Slices [Elevated].

Here's a brief but delicious history of Boston 's most edible storm warning system: https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2022-01-28/a-brief-but-delicious-history-of-the-french-toast-alert-system #boston #weather #snow #breakfast #mawx

gbhnews, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to fediverse

oh also a lot of internet things went down this morning

things seem ok in the #fediverse tho 🤔

No outages on here -- is that your experience too?