Slashing at Projo - Paper to Stop Publishing Community, Arts Event Listings, “People on the Move”
Monday, February 28, 2022
The Providence Journal is cutting back.
This weekend, the ProJo’s Executive Editor announced a number of the paper's areas of local coverage will no longer be published.
Under the headline “Changes coming to the Journal,” David Ng announced the following:
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST“Starting March 1, The Journal will discontinue publishing event listings from arts and community groups, as well as People of the Move notices of hirings and promotions at area businesses and the guest lineups for the Sunday news shows,” Ng wrote on the ProJo’s website.
“We regret any inconvenience this may cause,” he added.
GoLocal to Fill Void
"We will continue to expand our community coverage. Immediately, we will be launching in our business section announcements of business and community hirings and promotions," said Josh Fenton, CEO and co-founder of GoLocal. "Coverage of all aspects of the community is critical and we will continue to expand our coverage."
Today, GoLocalProv, Rhode Island's largest digital statewide news organization, provides obituaries to Rhode Islander families at no charge in a partner with 57 funeral homes. GoLocal now publishes the most obituaries in Rhode Island -- 40% more than any other publication in the state.
This year past year, GoLocal expanded its arts coverage by adding the weekly feature, "Inside Art with Michael Rose."
Business announcements can be sent to [email protected].
Projo's Parent Company Announced Financial Loses and More Cuts
Gannett, the parent company of the Journal, announced last week its fourth-quarter financials. The company had yet another negative performance, losing more than $22 million.
In January, the Boston Business Journal reported Gannett will stop Saturday print editions at 136 newspapers nationwide.
"The nation’s largest newspaper chain is discontinuing Saturday print editions starting March 5 at more than half of its newspapers nationwide, saying it will instead offer “new, additional benefits” including expanded access to online editions.
Gannett Co. Inc. told staff in an email on Wednesday that it is 'introducing a new Saturday experience in 136 of our markets which transitions from delivering the Saturday print edition to providing exclusive access to the full Saturday e-Edition.'
According to the company’s most recent annual filing, it operates 253 daily newspapers across the country.
Sources told the Business Journal that while the chain’s two largest dailies, The Providence Journal and the Worcester Telegram and Gazette, will not be affected, most others will, including the Cape Cod Times, the Fall River Herald News and the New Bedford Standard-Times. Some of Gannett’s dailies, such as the Patriot Ledger in Quincy, have previously combined Saturday and Sunday print editions into one print product delivered on Saturday."
Related Articles
- Transforming Local News Through Free Community Obituaries — 49% More Than Projo
- Former Projo Reporter and Brown Prof. Threatened Author With Legal Action on Book About Station Fire
- Thanks to Partnership with Leading Funeral Homes, GoLocal Now Has More Obituaries Than the Projo
- Big Trouble for Projo’s Parent Company Gannett as Revenue Plummets, Print Ad Dollars Down 30% in Q3
- Epstein Case: AG in Virgin Islands Will Subpoena Projo’s Parent Co.’s Financier
- Projo’s Parent Company Gannett Sees 45% Print and 26% Digital Decline in Revenues in 2nd Quarter
- RI Media: Projo’s Parent Co. Sends 485 Jobs to India, St. Pierre Replaced by Syndicated Show
- Projo’s Parent Co. CEO Compensation Bolstered to as Much as $20 Million
- Projo’s Circulation Falls to 29,957 - Paper Announces More Restrictions to Online Content
- Projo Editorial Mirrors Mattiello’s Talking Points, Raising More Questions of Newspaper’s Lobbyist
- Projo’s Parent Co. Pushes to Cut Weekend Overtime Pay - CEO Makes 42x More Than Average Worker
- Merger of GateHouse and Gannett is Official - Projo’s 3rd Owner in 5 Years, More Cuts Expected
- Projo and Other Gannett Newspapers Hit With Furloughs and Pay Cuts, Globe Facing Layoffs and Buyouts
- Projo’s Parent Company Gannett Reports Dramatic Decline in Revenues, Stock Plummets
- Billionaire Investor Says “No One Believes the Numbers” of Projo’s Parent Co. -Ad & Circulation Fall
- NEW: Bill Reynolds, Long-Time Projo Sports Reporter, Goes to Part-Time
- NEW: 30-Year Veteran ProJo Sportswriter McNamara is Out
- Projo’s Parent Company Gannett Saw 26.9% Print Adv Loss, Circulation Revenue Down 13.6% in Q4