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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...
It's official. Tom Heslin, a presence at the Providence Journal for more than 25 years and the seeming heir-apparent since the retirement of Joel Rawson , has been appointed as the newspaper's executive editor. Heslin's ProJo career dates...
Like I was saying yesterday , Rhode Islanders are displeased with the direction of the ProJo. Kath Connolly, a local educator, has launched a citizen-based effort to raise the quantity of local news in Rhode Island's statewide daily. She's started...
It's not hard to find Rhode Islanders unhappy and ornery about the incredible shrinking ProJo. John Hazen White Jr. used this as his outrage last week on A Lively Experiment, and just in casual conversation, a number of politicos and others have mentioned...
Reuters via Romenesko : NEW YORK, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Dallas Morning News publisher AH Belo Corp (AHC.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) on Friday became the latest U.S. newspaper owner to say it is changing the terms of its bank debt to run...
UPDATE: Comment from Fitzpatrick. Ed returned my call a short time ago, calling his new role "a big honor, a big responsibility." In a reference to Bakst, he said, "I've got to find some suspenders. I've got big suspenders to fill...
During last night's Pawtucket mayoral debate , moderator John C. Gregory of the Northern RI Chamber of Commerce noted how the press panel -- consisting of a scribe from the Times of Pawtucket and a representative of Senior Digest -- was down a person...
Somewhere, Sevellon Brown is weeping. A memo distributed to Journal employees: October 10, 2008 TO ALL EMPLOYEES: Today, we published our final regional zone sections (North, Metro, West Bay, East Bay & Massachusetts and South County). Starting Tuesday...
As of this afternoon, the word is that Steve Peoples, rather than going to take the City Hall post vacated by Dan Barbarisi, will be staying at the State House for now. It's worth noting again that the Journal's State House bureau plays a vital...
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