Save Worldview!

Featured this week: Our letter to Chicago Public Media’s Board of Directors

Sign the letter to WBEZ

WBEZ (Chicago Public Public) plans to cancel Worldview with Jerome McDonnell in October 2019. Worldview has and continues to shape our region in profound ways. As reported by the Chicago Tribune, people are coming together to demonstrate support for the show. Please join the campaign to save Worldview by signing the petition letter below, reading more about the campaign, sharing a testimonial, checking out the endorsing organizations, and – please – spreading the word about the campaign. As of September 17, 2,700 people have signed the letter.

Dear Ms. Goli Sheikholeslami, CEO, Chicago Public Media:

We, people and communities of Chicago and concerned friends, call on WBEZ radio to reconsider its decision to cancel the long-running program Worldview with Jerome McDonnell in October 2019.

Instead, contemplating changes to programming is an opportunity to strengthen Worldview as an example for other stations across the U.S.

We celebrate how Worldview uniquely empowers people. There is no similar forum for in-depth discussion of international affairs and how they involve our communities. Worldview makes foreign news locally relevant in a way that syndicated or broader local programing cannot. It has built a community of globally engaged listeners – students, teachers, businesses, activists, artists, musicians, New Americans, the intellectually curious, and beyond – like nowhere else. Support from endorsing organizations and testimonials confirm this. If radio programming is judged by impact, then Worldview deserves your reassessment.

Our request is not born from nostalgia. Worldview has never been more vital, especially at a time when the very survival of our planet requires us to be deeply engaged in the world. Surely, a way can be found to renew Worldview.

We appreciate how WBEZ has been responsive to listener feedback in the past. We hope this will not be an exception.

Sincerely,

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