Slashing at Projo - Paper to Stop Publishing Community, Arts Event Listings, "People on the Move"
GoLocalProv Business Team
Slashing at Projo - Paper to Stop Publishing Community, Arts Event Listings, "People on the Move"
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."
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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."