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ProJo Medical report; the wild ones
Phillipe and Jorge are wishing a speedy recovery to our old friend, Bob Whitcomb, editor of the Urinal's editorial pages.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | November 21, 2011

Don't sweat your major — you'll probably change your mind anyway

Throwing it all away
Chances are that two of you have no friggin' idea what you want to do with your lives, and the one of you who does will change his or her mind by age 25.
By ASHLEY RIGAZIO | August 31, 2011

Is Rhode Island a paywall mecca?

As the ProJo Turns
Media analysts say Rhode Island could be especially fertile ground for a declining newspaper industry's primary survival strategy — charging readers for access to its heretofore free web sites.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | August 17, 2011

How they hate him

LePage vs. The Media Alliance to Ridicule, Degrade, and Eviscerate Normal Society
Republican Governor Paul LePage has every right to be angry at Maine journalists for depicting him as a clueless buffoon with the political skills of a rabies-maddened raccoon and the public-relations prowess of day-old bait.
By AL DIAMON | August 10, 2011

Whatever happened to Danville's giant mystery monkey?

Unfinished (monkey) business
The giant monkey of Danville was my symbol, back then, of the fin-de-siècle nadir in media fluffery, thankfully obsolesced in one grim morning.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | August 04, 2011

Murdoch & Son

A Scandal of Vatican Proportions
In little more than two weeks, Murdoch's News International (NI) division, the maker and breaker of British prime ministers, has been humbled, and — by extension — its US-based parent, News Corporation, humiliated.
By PETER KADZIS | July 20, 2011

George Kimball, 1943-2011

In Memoriam
George Kimball, Phoenix sports editor (back when there was such a thing) for nearly 10 years, Boston Herald columnist for 25 more, and truly one of the great boxing writers of our time, passed away last week at his home in New York City. He was 67.
By SEAN KERRIGAN | July 13, 2011

Shaking up Salt

Press releases
A school that has quietly drawn to Portland, trained, and set loose around Maine a large number of journalists and other young creative professionals is entering a new phase, and not a decade too soon.
By JEFF INGLIS | July 13, 2011

Build on each other

Press releases
Why is that when one Maine news outlet breaks a big story, the others spend more energy trying to copy it, rather than extend it? Take the most recent example, the labor mural dispute.
By JEFF INGLIS | April 06, 2011

Build on each other

The way I roll

A florid salutation; the changing Times ; more on the Roots Café
As you may have read in this space last week, my decades-long partner in crime, Chip Young, has left the column for a gig at golocalprov.com . So first, a word about the new "Cool, Cool World."
By RUDY CHEEKS | March 16, 2011

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War on the average Joe

Press releases
Right now, Maine can afford to pay its state employees' pensions for the next 10 years with no additional investment — without any sort of supplement, not even workers' biweekly paycheck deductions.
By JEFF INGLIS | March 09, 2011

Clif Garboden, 1948-2011

Clif Garboden, who spent virtually all of his professional career affiliated with the Boston Phoenix , died last week. He was 62.
By PETER KADZIS | February 17, 2011

Chris Faraone with one of the Phoenix NEMPA awards

The Phoenix cleans up at NENPA

Tooting Our Own Horn Dept.
The Phoenix is always and inherently an odd, anomalous bird at the annual New England Newspaper & Press Association (NENPA) conference and awards banquet.
By PHOENIX STAFF | February 16, 2011

Should sportswriters be allowed to gamble on sports?

Sucker bet
Halloween 2010 kicked off a rough week for Keith Olbermann and Bill Simmons.
By SEAN KERRIGAN | February 05, 2011

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Can Maine's Democrats come back from the dead?

Or have they been Republicans for too long?
Let's skip over several huge problems the Maine Democratic Party faces as it tries to recover from its historic losses in November, when for the first time since 1964 the Republicans took control of both houses of the Legislature and the governorship.
By LANCE TAPLEY | January 19, 2011

A critical reading of LePage’s inaugural address

Starting points
Governor Paul LePage's inaugural address was fairly short, and was filled with rhetoric much like that from his campaign.
By JEFF INGLIS | January 12, 2011

Stenographers

Press releases
"Stenographers" is an inflammatory word to use to describe journalists, but it's the only accurate way to respond to news coverage of Paul LePage's inauguration as governor.
By JEFF INGLIS | January 12, 2011

The journalist makes news; don't buy it; two fond farewells

Pop goes the weasel
"ri monthly has a story coming out where I am listed as one of the top 10 most powerful in ri. If they try to f*** me, I will kill them." Who said that? John DePetro, WPRO's morning talk show weasel.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | November 17, 2010

The high-stakes overhaul of a newspaper website

As the ProJo turns
The Providence Journal 's website, once considered forward-looking, feels a little backward at the moment.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | November 17, 2010

Copyright gone copywrong: Cooks Source update

Too Many Cooks Dept.
It was the ill-informed e-mail heard 'round the world: "But honestly Monica, the Web is considered 'public domain' and you should be happy we just didn't 'lift' your whole article and put someone else's name on it!"
By STEVE MILLER | November 17, 2010

MuckRock City

How two local new-media junkies cut through the red tape and became First-Amendment superstars
Michael Morisy and Mitchell Kotler started their Web site, muckrock.com, as a hobby, and they set out to do something woefully esoteric.
By CHRIS FARAONE | November 17, 2010