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Noir comes to Providence

In Cold Blood
Former Providence Journal reporter Mark Arsenault’s new novel, Loot the Moon , is the second in a series focused on obituary writer, inveterate gambler, and investigator Billy Povich.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | October 28, 2009

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Fourth-estate follies!

Remembering the year in media malfeasance
Granted, other years have had flashier media embarrassments (Jayson Blair, Stephen Glass), but that doesn't mean that 2008 lacked for media misdeeds.
By ADAM REILLY | December 24, 2008

Visitation rights

Hidden in plain sight
“In terms of the general public, most people I know have never seen the inside of a detention center."
By BRETT MICHEL | April 16, 2008

See no evil

What’s on the videotape Dan Conley won’t make public? Plus, winners in the Times ’ McCain mess.
An intriguing battle pitting government against the press is currently percolating on the North Shore and here in Boston.
By ADAM REILLY | February 27, 2008

Disturbia

A Rear Window redux
What happened to D.J. Caruso?
By BRETT MICHEL | April 10, 2007

Whatever happened to Memogate?

Waiting for the Globe ’s mea culpa
If the Big Dig tunnel collapse that killed Milena Del Valle is the biggest Boston news story of 2006, the media story of the year is the Globe reporting — incorrectly — that a safety officer at the site all but predicted Del Valle’s death back in 1999. Key moments in memogate: Anatomy of a gaffe. By Adam Reilly
By ADAM REILLY | November 10, 2006

Reality TV meets the newsroom

Trailblazer Steve Smith brings newspaper transparency to a whole new level
Even in an era of buzzwords such as media “transparency” and “interactive dialogue” (between news consumers and news producers), what’s happening at the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, is pretty strange stuff.
By MARK JURKOWITZ | June 21, 2006

Your ombuddy

Once the most thankless job in journalism, the lowly ombudsman is now poised to be a star
Part internal-affairs cop, part complaint department, American news ombudsmen are truly a unique breed.
By MARK JURKOWITZ | June 19, 2006

Driving Mr. Kennedy

A plurality of JFK and Jesus portraits shore up Patrick’s base
Where the hell was the chauffeur when US Representative Patrick Kennedy needed him?
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | May 10, 2006

Jamestown loses its erection

The big blow-up could be a spectacle for the ages
Jamestown Bridge is falling down, falling down. Jamestown Bridge is falling down, my fair lady!
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | April 12, 2006

The prince and the paper

Quietly building his journalistic credentials in Rhode Island, 25-year-old Arthur Gregg Sulzberger could one day vie for the top job at the New York Times
When a young Providence Journal reporter was poised to reveal the all-male membership of the Narragansett Lions Club last year, it didn’t sit well with at least one member.
By IAN DONNIS | February 02, 2006

Busted

The Smoking Gun shoots author James Frey, and bags Oprah and Doubleday in the process
If you are one of the more than 3.5 million readers (and climbing) who forked over $22.95 for James Frey’s autobiographical account of his addiction to booze and cocaine, and his subsequent recovery from the depths of spiritual squalor, you were robbed.
By THE PHOENIX EDITORIAL | January 20, 2006

Globe-al anxiety

The Boston Globe is going through its biggest shake-up in 30 years. What will it mean for the paper, the editor, the remaining staff, and the city itself?
There were more lumps of coal than holiday cheer at 135 Morrissey Boulevard this Christmas season.
By MARK JURKOWITZ | January 14, 2006