Our spiffy site update/re-launch is scheduled for the next week or so — and not a moment too soon.
You’ll be getting to know us a lot better in coming months, as our ascendancy to most-legitimate-news source (along with our sisters and brothers at RIFuture and N4N) shall be complete:
‘Cuz you’re not going to find much worth in the Projo, unless you’re a paper mache fiend or have a lot of fish to wrap…
I wish I had responded sooner to RDR. Please understand that I/we have friends over at the ProJo. I think I speak for us all — we are not gloating. I can also remember when (before BeLo) the ProJo was a nationally renowned paper with top-notch writing and investigative reporting. It was a point of pride for rhode islanders. Also, we’re not reporters here, we need them. Watching this death of a thousand cuts is bad enough, but knowing what the politicians in this state are capable of — without reporters keeping them somewhat honest — the consequences could be dire.
i read your daily dose, and most days i like it, but rubbing salt in the wounds of your colleagues? c’mon . . .
this post lacks professionalism and class and a basic sense of humanity
it’s one thing to have a sense of competition and another to gloat over a significant event in the lives of some very good journalists, both those who are departing involuntarily and those who will remain behind and continue to try to do some decent journalism at this particular point in history in the industry and at the Journal.
kicking colleagues when they’re down . . . too cheap and easy.
and pretty disappointing
Agree that the ProJo has too many wire feeds already. With only a handful of writers left, and the advertising jobs intact, it sounds like the paper is depending on bringing in the same or more advertising dollars for an increase in recycled content. How can that be sustainable?
I stopped reading the ProJo years ago due to their poor reporting. I don’t see how these actions are going to get me to resubscribe. Their death spiral just accelerated. It’s sad to see it wither, but they’ve been pretty useless for some time now.
And just look at their website: over 50% of the front page is SPORTS! Then, on a good day, they have 25% “lifestyle” and 25% news. And almost all the news on the front page is wire feed. To get to the actual local news you have to drill down about 15 clicks.
Thirty people from the news?!!! That leaves Mark Patinkin and the obits. This is really terrible news for Rhode island.