https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/26/business/media/new-york-public-radio-job-cuts-wnyc.html
"New York Public Radio, a nonprofit, operates WNYC, the classical music station WQXR and the Gothamist local news site. It has about 340 full-time and part-time employees... Mr. Oliver didn’t say in his memo which areas of the organization would be hardest hit, but said the organization would preserve its journalism and music efforts. New York Public Radio is also planning to eliminate a majority of open positions..."
We can safely assume that most of the cuts (like with NPR) will be in the podcasting division. Radiolab has 22 on staff:
https://radiolab.org/team
22 people to produce a single podcast. That's a lot of people that need to get paid. It's not sustainable.
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