As the year comes to a close, the media is filled with the inevitable retrospectives. And Lincoln Chafee gets the full treatment in the Wall Street Journal today with a piece titled "Gov. Chafee Learns the Price of Independence." The only political independent serving as a governor could use...

There are no reporters or columnists among the nine Providence Journal staffers who took buyouts on Friday, according to John Hill, a reporter and president of the Providence Newspaper Guild. Hill did not have a complete list in front of him when we spoke this afternoon and declined to release any names...

Nine Providence Journal employees have taken buyouts offered by the newspaper. The official announcement is to come Monday. The paper was looking to shed eight employees - one reporter, one copy editor, one photographer, one editorial assistant, and four advertising representatives. If fewer than eight...

Our sister paper, the Boston Phoenix , gets a shout-out:

As I report in today's Phoenix , expiring contracts for talk show hosts Dan Yorke and John DePetro have created some uncertainty at WPRO, with no one quite sure whether new owner Cumulus Media will keep them in place. The company, in the wake of its $2.3 billion purchase of former WPRO parent company...

The Phoenix has confirmed that WPRO talk show hosts Dan Yorke and John DePetro face expiring contracts in the coming months. The expirations, by themselves, aren't all that newsworthy. But with new ownership in place - Atlanta-based Cumulus Media completed a $2.3 billion purchase of the station's...

Cumulus, the Atlanta-based parent company for a suite of Rhode Island radio stations including WPRO and 92 Pro FM, has struck an intriguing deal with its chief competitor, Clear Channel. Clear Channel will begin offering Cumulus's 570 stations on its iHeartRadio service, a streaming app that aims...

This weekend, after sleeping off the turkey, we here at the Boston Phoenix will be putting in a few extra shifts to begin the laborious process of clearing out the newsroom, which has been gathering dust, backissues, scribbled in-jokes, stuffed chipmunks, and Dukes of Hazard posters for a couple of decades...

The Phoenix hits the stands a day early this week, what with the holiday and all. And it's a fun issue. The cover story: our third annual turkey shoot, where we call out Rhode Islanders, as the story says, for "acts most fowl." There's some other good stuff in there, too. Brian Jones...

Cumulus, the radio conglomerate that bought Citadel Broadcasting's suite of Providence radio stations, laid off seven staffers two weeks ago, including Lite-Rock 105 jockey Art Spencer, a deep-voiced fixture in the market. Among the others let go: Tony Cornetta, who produced WPRO talk host Dan Yorke's...