(12.16) Head over to the Wild Colonial on Monday for the Holiday Muckrakers Ball, a fundraiser to support the best muckraking journalism in Rhode Island — Uprise RI and Steve Ahlquist. (It’s like Nine Inch Nails: Steve is Uprise RI.) I can not overstate the service this gentleman is providing to the people of this …
(7.12) Journalism is not free. And true journalism, like that practiced by reporter Steve Ahlquist of Uprise RI, is going to cost you. And since our local paper of record is so conservative it supports the likes of Devin Nunes and Nicholas Mattiello,* the citizens of Rhode Island desperately need someone keeping an eye on …
So let’s get this straight — Bob Kerr is out, but Patinkin stays? Apparently Mr. Kerr should have spent more time writing about his kids leaving wet towels on the floor. Word spread quickly this week that Providence Journal columnist Bob Kerr had been unceremoniously shown the door after 43 years. Also let go were …
With an eye to cutting costs by $1.2 million, Providence Journal managers will proceed with layoffs in November. Ian Donnis at WRNI spoke with Newspaper Guild President John Hill, He says ProJo managers are determining which positions in news and advertising will be eliminated. Once those decisions are announced in November, Hill says, employees will be …
A sad day indeed. Ian Donnis and Scott MacKay report on the new staffing cuts at the Providence Journal and offer up a brief history of the ProJo’s sad decline from one of the finest privately-owned papers in the country to now. (WRNI 9.7.12) The Journal had considerable swagger in the ’90s, with the kind …
According to Channel 10 News a study from ClimateCentral.org indicates that Rhode Island’s climate is warming at a faster rate than any other state. (Coming in at number two is Massachusetts.) They looked at average daily temperatures for the continental 48 states from 1912 to the present, and also from 1970 to the present and …
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Consider this an open letter to the Providence Journal. The people of Rhode Island need your newspaper. A lot is at stake here. Imagine what would go on in this state, and in the cities and towns, if the paper were to fold. With all due respect to the great investigative reporting done at the …