input.translationReporting by #WestVirginia #PublicBroadcasting on millions in back taxes owed by #WV Gov. #JimJustice’s #coal #mines led to “a years-long pattern of mounting pressure on the station from Justice's administration” and legislators. Justice “appointed partisans hostile to public #broadcasting to key oversight positions,” tried to axe state funding for #WVPB, and station admins steered #journalists away from stories looking at Justice’s businesses.
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CHARLESTON — West Virginia Public Broadcasting has parted ways with one of its reporters after alleged retaliation from WVPB operational management and pressure from the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Jeff RThis story out of #westvirginia is horrifying. Blatant suppression of #journalism by the gov't. And it looks like #WVPB (the public television station) is going to go along with it. Gross.
W.Va. Public Broadcasting reporter released after DHHR pressure
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Public Broadcasting has parted ways with one of its reporters after alleged retaliation from WVPB operational management and pressure from the Department of Health and Human Services. According to Amelia Knisely, a part-time reporter whose beat included public health, WVPB told her that her services were no longer required in a […]