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.

Here’s a gift for a time cultural opportunities feel exhausted and the latest Netflix offering feels meaningless: A free, 100-page, sumptuously produced magazine full of voices and images most of us have never heard or considered. It arrives in a surprising way, from a surprising birthplace.

After 32 years at Cambridge Community Television, executive director Susan Fleischmann said she plans to step down in early 2021.

Arts venues such as Harvard Square’s Brattle Theatre have questions about the governor’s four-phase strategy for reopening the state. But with payroll protection for staff, donations and Virtual Screening Room revenue coming in, The Brattle is ready to “bring back the joy” when it’s safe.

The City Council took a 16-minute recess Monday after getting Zoombombed. That is, the official use of the Zoom video conferencing platform was joined by people who jeered, yelled insults and, at around a half-hour in, displayed an X-rated image.