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The Providence Journal biz section lacks local content

GoLocalProv.com writes about the lack of local content in the Providence Journal’s business news section.

GoLocalProv writes, “At a time when the stock market is at record levels and in a state of upheaval, and the state touts low unemployment while facing a range of complex business issues, the Providence Journal has decided to surrender business coverage to the competing media in the market. For two consecutive weeks, there were no Sunday business articles written by the Providence Journal staff and only one local article was published by Lilli Paknis as a ‘special to the Providence Journal.’

“Former Providence Journal reporter and columnist M. Charles Bakst had previously taken to Facebook to question, ‘No knock on Lilli Paknis, whom I have never met and whose title is ‘Special to the Journal,’ but who are these people? I remember when the Journal employed full-time reporters with salaries and benefit…’

“Paknis according to her bio on LinkedIn is a 2015 graduate of the University of Rhode Island and is a substitute elementary school teacher in Marion, MA where she lives.

“The business section on recent Sundays did feature a San Jose Mercury News story titled, ‘Personal Tech Comes of Age’ and an Associated Press story ‘Equifax Breach Worse than Reported.'”

Read more here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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