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Current—Comings and goings: VP leaves Chicago Public Media, Cincinnati Public Radio hires music director . Amy Wielunski, who joined Chicago Public Media in 2017, is leaving her VP role to become executive director of VocalEssence, a nonprofit choral music organization in Minneapolis.

NewsBusters—Column: The Public Doesn't Trust the 'Democracy-Saving' Media. The national media consider themselves essential in educating the electorate, so what happens when the electorate does not consider them a trustworthy guardian of democracy? The Associated Press and the American Press Institute just released a poll on the 2024 election and found only 14 percent of their sample expressed a great deal of confidence in election-related information they receive from national sources. By contrast, 52 percent have little or no confidence at all in the information...

NewsBusters—Column: The Public Doesn't Trust the 'Democracy-Saving' Media. The national media consider themselves essential in educating the electorate, so what happens when the electorate does not consider them a trustworthy guardian of democracy? The Associated Press and the American Press Institute just released a poll on the 2024 election and found only 14 percent of their sample expressed a great deal of confidence in election-related information they receive from national sources. By contrast, 52 percent have little or no confidence at all in the information...