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False Joe Paterno Death Report Relied on Faulty Sourcing

Source: Flickr via WikipediaThe Onward State tweet that erroneously reported Joe Paterno's death Saturday night and led to an avalanche of false reports in other...
By Pro Publica | January 23, 2012

On the Ahlquist Story and Analysis

Providence Journal education reporter Jennifer Jordan had a fine cover story in Sunday's paper about the controversy over the prayer banner, recently deemed unconstitutional, at...
By David Scharfenberg | January 23, 2012

In the Phoenix: Web Piracy

I've got a cover story in today's Phoenix about the suddenly white hot debate over Internet piracy - a debate that has fired up the...
By David Scharfenberg | January 19, 2012

GoLocal Partnership With WJAR

GoLocalProv, the feisty web-based news site, has signed a one-year content-sharing partnership with WJAR-TV."We're excited about it, obviously," says Josh Fenton, co-founder of GoLocal. "Channel...
By David Scharfenberg | January 17, 2012

In the Phoenix; and Chafee on Civil Disobedience

I've got a cover story in today's Phoenix about Rhode Island's tricky shift to what I call Medical Marijuana 2.0.After a threatened federal crackdown, Governor...
By David Scharfenberg | January 12, 2012

Joey Takes Serbia

Regular readers of the Phoenix will recall the story I wrote last month on Joey DeFrancesco, who quit his crappy room service job at Marriot's...
By David Scharfenberg | January 11, 2012

Blog Party at Salon

And you thought the holidaze was over.A plug, here, for the Providence Blogosphere Post-Holidays Party tonight at 7 pm at Salon bar, 57 Eddy Street....
By David Scharfenberg | January 11, 2012

Chafee's Spin on 2011

Governor Chafee, his approval rating at 27 percent, has taken a beating in the end-of-2011 reviews. You've heard the list: failures on the sales tax...
By David Scharfenberg | January 09, 2012

Forbes on the Raimondo Speech

Forbes was in attendance today in new York as Treasurer Gina Raimondo accepted an award from the right-leaning Manhattan Institute for Public Policy Research for...
By David Scharfenberg | January 05, 2012

Fail: Boston Herald accidentally labels Dunkin' Donuts a terrorist organization

Ruh roh. An editor at Mediate grabbed this screenshot of the Herald's website yesterday -- accidentally using the second-coming-of-bin-Laden terror banner when they presumably meant...
By Carly Carioli | January 05, 2012

"Voice" critic J. Hoberman let go

The annual National Society of Film Critics meeting takes place this weekend, normally an occasion for our profession to feel better about itself. Maybe not...
By Peter Keough | January 05, 2012

Ten (or 11) years later: The Globe, The Phoenix, and the story that brought down Cardinal Law

This week marks the 10th anniversary of the Boston Globe's Pulitzer-winning series of stories that explored the extent of the Catholic Church's complicity in a...
By Carly Carioli | January 04, 2012

And We're Back...

Not for Nothing is back after a New Year's hiatus. Happy 2012, people. A few political/media notes and Occupy ruminations as we get back into...
By David Scharfenberg | January 03, 2012

WSJ on Chafee

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...
By David Scharfenberg | December 23, 2011

The Asian Dubya

Well, you can bet they're sleeping with one eye open in South Korea these days, now that the recently deceased porn fan and Oriental Fatty Arbuckle impersonator Kim Jong Il appears to have passed his role as Great Oppressor to the Great Successor, his so
Let’s hear it for the boy; Gina hits Fountain Street; hometown rockers
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | December 23, 2011

No Reporters, Columnists Leaving ProJo

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...
By David Scharfenberg | December 19, 2011

Nine Take ProJo Buyouts

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...
By David Scharfenberg | December 16, 2011

#Occupy Media

The tent villages of the Occupy movement — including those here in Maine — are excellent visual reminders of, and ever-present embodiments of, the social- and economic-justice challenges that our society faces.
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By JEFF INGLIS | December 16, 2011

Oh, Krusty

Our sister paper, the Boston Phoenix, gets a shout-out:
By David Scharfenberg | December 15, 2011

Cumulus's West Coast Cut

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...
By David Scharfenberg | December 08, 2011

Yorke, DePetro Contracts Come Due

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,...
By David Scharfenberg | December 07, 2011

Cumulus-Clear Channel Deal

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...
By David Scharfenberg | December 06, 2011

Journalism MIA

Phillipe and Jorge are wishing a speedy recovery to our old friend, Bob Whitcomb, editor of the Urinal's editorial pages.
ProJo Medical report; the wild ones
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | November 25, 2011

Disorder of the Phoenix: Watch us dismantle our newsroom over Thanksgiving weekend on Tumblr

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...
By Carly Carioli | November 23, 2011

In the Phoenix: Turkeys!

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...
By David Scharfenberg | November 23, 2011

Review: Being Elmo

Just in time for the release of The Muppet Movie on November 25 comes Constance Marks's look at the man behind the pilly-fabric Sesame Street character.
A moving portrait of an unheralded artist
By PETER KEOUGH | November 18, 2011

Fraud isn't killing Maine's welfare system — conservative misunderstanding is

Last week in Ellsworth, Governor Paul LePage renewed his efforts to change Maine's welfare system, calling for increased restrictions on benefits for people seeking taxpayer support to get health coverage through the state's Medicaid program.
Barely hanging on
By JEFF INGLIS | November 18, 2011

Moving around

The day before Richard Connor resigned his position as editor and publisher of the Portland Press Herald and head of MaineToday Media (as well as departing his leadership posts atop a Pennsylvania newspaper company), he moved $3 million worth of real
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By JEFF INGLIS | November 18, 2011

On the Cumulus Layoffs

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...
By David Scharfenberg | November 17, 2011

Conferencing

I'll be at a conference sponsored by the New England First Amendment Coalition the next couple of days, dear readers, so the blogging will be...
By David Scharfenberg | November 14, 2011

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