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Tense times these days on Fountain Street, where ProJo staffers face the fallout of Belo's recently announced plans to cut some 500 jobs company-wide. Adding insult to injury ( Dallas Observer via Romenesko ): On Friday, A.H. Belo Corporation announced...
Tim Schick, administrator of the Providence Newspaper Guild , says the union fully expects recently announced Belo cutbacks to result in layoffs at the ProJo, "but we don't know where or how many." With the Guild representing 300 people...
UPDATED HERE : Tim Schick, administrator of the Providence Newspaper Guild , says the union fully expects recently announced Belo cutbacks to result in layoffs at the ProJo, "but we don't know where or how many." With the Guild representing...
This just in, from the Providence Newspaper Guild : Joint Resolution of the Providence Newspaper Guild Executive Committee and Providence Unit Council Adopted unanimously Jan. 30, 2009 In recognition of the trying times facing the newspaper industry and...
In a memo dated today to his colleagues at the A.H. Belo Corporation , chairman Robert Decherd warns of job cuts across the company, "probably . . . in the range of 500 jobs," and among other changes, announces that Belo will no longer provide...
The Providence Journal, which was hit last year by the departure of its longtime editor and by what were thought to be the paper's first-ever economic layoffs , is being considered for further cuts. While rumors are rife about a possible announcement...
Speaking of newspaper advertising, a ProJo reader recently pointed out to me some of the dubious ads that have been running in Rhode Island's statewide daily, such as a full-pager yesterday on A7, dramatically headlined, "Amish mantle and miracle...
The fortress-like heft of the Providence Journal Building near the center of downtown suggests the weight and significance its product once carried across Rhode Island. Now the structure is for sale , a development that serves as a sad metaphor for the...
As part of a recent post-layoff reorganization, the ProJo is assigning its news staff to five different "pods," a move that will result in the three members of its investigative team reporting to two different editors. The new approach, due...
Charlie Francis of C.B. Richard Ellis told Buddy Cianci a short time ago that Belo Corporation, the Dallas-based parent of the ProJo, has retained his firm to sell the newspaper's Providence real estate, including the signature downtown building....
Robert W. Decherd , big boss at Dallas-based Belo Corporation -- owner of the ProJo -- has taken some voluntary compensation hits in recent years. So does word that his base salary will more than double indicate an overdue payday or gross insensitivity...
A number of customer service representatives have reportedly been laid off at the Providence Journal. One source believes the number of axed workers to be as high as 22. Tim Schick, administrator of the Providence Newspaper Guild, says he has heard talk...
An unidentified editorial writer was among those laid off when the Providence Journal eliminated 30 news jobs in October. David A. Mittell Jr., who had been with the ProJo for 11 years, subsequently contacted me to identify himself as the individual in...
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