The Cambridge Chronicle has a new editor and reporter, a transition that sparked discussion about the weekly paper’s long-term role in the community after the previous editor urged residents to support local journalism by subscribing.

City councillors paid tribute Monday to Amy Saltzman, as of Friday the ex-editor of the Cambridge Chronicle, and expressed sorrow that corporate ownership of the paper had hollowed out the weekly paper’s staff over the years.

The city trivia game show “Who Knows Cambridge?” was brought back Wednesday by Cambridge Community Television for an open-air Starlight Square edition, this time with Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui as host.

Susan Fleischmann, former executive director of Cambridge Community Television, has been selected to get its 2021 Sakey Award for “outstanding contributions to development of access to the media in Cambridge” at CCTV’s annual meeting April 21.

The Boston Compass newspaper, launched a little over a decade ago as a one-page zine, is now an eight-page paper with newsrack boxes across Boston – and expands again this month with the launch of its first Web series. Cambridge’s Pauline Kaba is the host.

A relocation for the Somerville Media Center that was threatened in 2019 is finally coming due, and its television, radio and podcasting studios and labs will have to be packed and moved by June 30.

The first issue of The Left Bank of the Charles Review arrived with the new year, promised quarterly by Joseph Levendusky – a traveler, lover of music, left-leaning political critic and sitter in cafés.

In announcing the $40,141 shared by 24 musicians, Passim showed how coronavirus has made a difference in awards that began in 2008: The year’s applications reveal “a dramatic increase” in requests for audio and video recording equipment for home studios and livestreaming.

Cambridge Community Television has found its third executive director in Jessica Smyser, the leader of an arts and education nonprofit in Santa Fe, New Mexico, who before that worked in the Cambridge and Somerville music industry.

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