Yesterday, Boston University and WBUR received some allegations against Tom Ashbrook. Tom will be on leave from his duties at WBUR while an outside organization hired by Boston University examines these allegations. We will decide a course of action after getting the results of this investigation.

WBUR and Reddit, “the front page of the internet,” announced today a partnership to launch Endless Thread, a weekly podcast that will debut in January. Hosted by WBUR’s Ben Brock Johnson (former host of Marketplace Tech and the Codebreaker podcast) and produced by Amory Sivertson (Modern Love: The Podcast and Dear Sugars), Endless Thread will give a highly produced audio treatment to some of the best stories uncovered among Reddit's massive ecosystem of more than 135,000 online communities and 330 million monthly users. Johnson will bring listeners on an unexpected journey, telling redditors’ fascinating stories with a thematic weekly approach.

Throughout the entire month of December, WBUR and NPR are asking listeners to show their love for public radio by using the hashtag #WhyPublicRadio.  Everyone is getting in on the fun! Including, the hosts.

Listeners are also able to donate to their favorite stations and shows.  If you love the great storytelling and journalism brought to you by public radio, donate here.

Zola, the wedding company reinventing the wedding planning and registry experience, is hitting the road on a “Love Stories Tour” to collect everyday love stories in partnership with Modern Love, the podcast based on the New York Times’ popular series of weekly reader-submitted essays that explore the joys and tribulations of love. The Tour kicks off on Saturday, November 11th, just in time for engagement season. 40% of couples get engaged and start their wedding registry between Thanksgiving and Valentine’s Day.

WBUR was proud to be a media sponsor of the 2017 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, the world's largest conference and expo dedicated to green building, on November 8-10.

The world and environment are changing.  But how will that impact the way we build?
Join WBUR and the Isenberg School of Management at the Aloft Boston Seaport Hotel for the third installment of Driven.  Senior correspondent Bruce Gellerman will lead the evening’s conversation.
Architect Bjarke Ingels, founder and creative partner of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), and John F. Fish, Chairman and CEO of Suffolk – a leading U.S. contracting firm, will discuss innovation in architectural design and why it’s crucial to “build smart”.
“Driven” is presented by The Isenberg School at UMass Amherst. Several times each year, “Driven” will bring together seminal business thought leaders to share insights with Boston’s business community.  “Driven” will draw its speakers from across the business spectrum. As New England’s top-rated public business school and valued resource for Boston’s business community, Isenberg’s speaker series aspires to catalyze the exchange of innovative ideas and business networking.
Click here to purchase tickets for this event.
Event Location

Aloft Boston Seaport
401-403 D Street
Boston, MA 02210

WBUR has installed a new antenna, expanding its radio reach by 400,000 listeners across eastern and central Massachusetts. The station with Boston’s largest radio newsroom increased the height of its antenna by 175 feet – the equivalent of almost 16 stories – by relocating its primary 90.9 FM antenna from a tower in Newton, Massachusetts to a taller tower in the neighboring town of Needham.

WBUR is proud to be the media sponsor of HUBweek.  Our hosts are all over the festival! Click here to find out where!

>>Check out what's on our radar for the best free events happening at HUBweek:

 
The Female Entrepreneur's Experience in Boston
Wednesday, Oct. 11 starting at 5pm 
Boston has become a city known for welcoming and nurturing startup companies and big ideas. Hear from female founders, venture capitalists and journalists who have built their teams here in the Hub and the successes and challenges they have encountered along the way. (click here for more)

WBUR is pleased to announce that The Academy of New England Journalists is presenting host Robin Young with this year’s Yankee Quill Award, which recognizes journalists for their exceptional contributions to their communities and the industry.

Robin is recognized for her work on WBUR & NPR’s “Here and Now” which is carried by nearly 500 NPR stations coast-to-coast, and as a major contributor to the advancement of both television and radio journalism since the 1970s, when she hosted one of TV’s first news magazines on WBZ-TV in Boston.

Congratulations to WBUR's digital team for winning the Online Journalism Award in the Planned News/ Event Medium Category for their 2016 Election Night coverage. The award is in recognition of the great collaboration between  WBUR's digital team and the entire newsroom.

Here is a link to the winning entry.