The oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the United States, the Journal has a proud history. Charles Bakst, a veteran political reporter and columnist at the Journal who took a buyout in 2008. “I don’t know whether to cry or tear my hair out,” said M. Former staffers and longtime subscribers who remember when the paper, colloquially known as the ProJo, was thick with local news, long-form narratives, and prize-winning investigative projects are heartbroken. While the cuts affect all Gannett papers - in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, it owns the Taunton Daily Gazette, the Cape Cod Times, The Patriot Ledger, The Herald News in Fall River, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, The Standard-Times in New Bedford, and The Newport Daily News, among others - the tradition of excellence at The Providence Journal makes its dismantling especially alarming. “So their products, like the ProJo, are losing circulation and advertisers more quickly and basically spiraling down.” 1 priority is paying off the debt,” said news industry analyst Ken Doctor.
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