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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...
Not for nothing, but Kent Willever had an interesting choice for a bit of office decoration when he took up the job as executive director of the Rhode Island Ethics Commission . As I wrote in 2002 : An illustration of Don Quixote seems like an appropriate...
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...
K + C to: -- Katie Mulvaney, who will succeed Ed Fitzpatrick on the court beat for the ProJo now that Ed has made his debut as the paper's political columnist. Mulvaney is no doubt well-prepared, as she has spent much time covering court-related stories...
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...
That it was no longer your father's newspaper became clear when the ProJo, in a dramatic switch from its long-held position, endorsed a Narragansett Indian casino in 2006 . Yet it's remains bracing when the Journal, long a bastion of Republicanism...
A day after we broke the news , here's the internal memo: Ed has 20 years of experience as a reporter and editor at daily newspapers, including the past eight years at the Journal. He has been a member of the Journal State House bureau and has covered...
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...
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