This news from Pacifica: At the national board meeting in Washington, D.C., this weekend, Dr. Mary Frances Berry announced she will be stepping down as chair of the Pacifica board, though she said she will remain on the board until her term ends next September. The vice chair, David Acosta from Houston, will be replacing her. Pacifica executive director, Lynn Chadwick, also has resigned. She’s being replaced by Bessie Wash, the general manager of Pacifica station WPFW. Three new members were added to the embattled board of directors. D.C. attorney John Murdock was seated. He’s from the Washington law firm of Epstein, Becker & Green, which bills itself as being among the largest labor and employment law firms in the world working exclusively with management. It offers counsel and representation to management, including maintaining a “union-free workplace.” Also seated was New York activist Leslie Cagan, who works with the Same Boat Coalition, an umbrella organization that works on poverty and education issues. The third new member of the Pacifica board is Bertram Lee. Lee is former owner of the Denver Nuggets basketball team and runs a firm that, among other activities, buys and sells radio stations. In the public comment part of the Pacifica board meeting, listeners and producers from around the country raised concerns about sale of Pacifica stations, to which Pacifica Chair, Dr. Berry, responded there were no plans to sell. Censorship was the other major area of concern. Speakers asked the Board to negotiate with the more than 40 freelance reporters who are engaged in a three-month boycott of the Pacifica network news. Among other issues over censorship, they are also calling for the reinstatement of Dan Coughlin, who was ousted as news director after airing a news brief on a Pacifica protest. Management denies he was removed for that reason. Longtime Pacifica news anchor Verna Avery Brown resigned last month in protest of his ouster.