Pacifica management has decided to hire a new Assistant Producer for Uprising after it became clear that the program could not continue with just one full-time paid staffer. Uprising is pleased to announce the hire of one if its interns, Bipasha Shom, who will temporarily be filling the Assistant Producer position. <\/p>\n
Uprising will resume in it’s regular hour-long format on Friday August 10th, 2012. <\/p>\n
Citing ‘Austerity Measures,’ Pacifica Cuts Uprising Staff by Half<\/strong> – 08\/06\/12<\/p>\n On the eve of Uprising’s 9th anniversary, Pacifica Executive Director Arlene Engelhardt has decided to cut Uprising’s Assistant Producer position, leaving host and Executive Producer Sonali Kolhatkar to manage the popular 5 day-a-week drive time program on her own. Despite being informed of a temporary medical condition Kolhatkar is struggling with, Engelhardt disregarded the requests of KPFK’s local managers and decided to cut the union position. <\/p>\n Until recently the position was filled by Martina Steiner who resigned to pursue a graduate degree. Steiner worked closely with Kolhatkar to share the day-to-day responsibilities of producing a high-quality daily program. Uprising is also syndicated to over 14 community stations around the country, contributes daily segments to KPFA’s morning show, Upfront, and maintains a strong internet presence. Engelhardt’s decision to cut the program’s staff in half threatens all these aspects of Uprising’s impressive reach. <\/p>\n KPFK’s managers have expressed full support for Uprising and a desire to hire a new assistant producer for the show. Additionally, KPFK is currently fiscally sound and hiring a new assistant producer for Uprising will not have any financial impact on the station. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pacifica management has decided to hire a new Assistant Producer for Uprising after it became clear that the program could not continue with just one full-time paid staffer. Uprising is pleased to announce the hire of one if its interns, Bipasha Shom, who will temporarily be filling the Assistant Producer position. Uprising will resume in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}