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Phoenix Media empire gets even smaller

By Ron Newman on Fri, 10/10/2014 - 12:50am

WPRI reports that the Providence Phoenix will publish its final issue next Thursday, ending nearly 36 years of service to Rhode Island. The Boston Phoenix stopped publishing in March 2013.

With the Providence paper's closing, only the weekly Portland Phoenix remains of what was once a large regional media empire: Boston Phoenix, Providence Phoenix, Portland Phoenix, Worcester Phoenix, Stuff@Night magazine, WFNX radio, and the Spanish-language El Planeta newspaper.

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Comments

By anonermus on Fri, 10/10/2014 - 2:06am.

Man, Stephen Mindich is such a failure he could look into a mirror and not be able to see anything.

By Sources Say on Fri, 10/10/2014 - 7:23am.

He should never be forgiven for selling 'FNX. It left a huge hole in Boston radio.

By anonermus on Fri, 10/10/2014 - 11:34am.

True. If he had to sell it, he could've found a buyer that wouldn't have gutted it and eliminated 25 jobs in the process.

By Brian Riccio on Fri, 10/10/2014 - 8:28am.

Mindich has always excelled at human trafficking!

By Scratchie Not Logged In on Fri, 10/10/2014 - 10:47am.

Yeah, he only ran a newspaper for, what, forty years? And a radio station for thirty? We should all fail so badly.

By R Hookup on Fri, 10/10/2014 - 1:15pm.

Is that a "short" joke?

By Charles Bahne on Fri, 10/10/2014 - 7:31am.

Don't forget his free weekly "At Nite", basically a listing of escort services -- that's still around.

By Ron Newman on Fri, 10/10/2014 - 10:15am.

which deliberately misled tourists on the street into picking up a copy, thinking it was a guide to live-music nightclubs and bars.

(I wonder if this practice stopped because one of the bands objected to being put on this cover?)

By bulgingbuick on Fri, 10/10/2014 - 8:03am.

papers but how about the pony tail?

By BOOOOOOOOOOOOO on Fri, 10/10/2014 - 8:45am.

Just twisting the knife at this point. Don't really need the reminder.

By moxie on Fri, 10/10/2014 - 9:04am.

Replacement Publication: The Providence Panderer!

By bulgingbuick on Fri, 10/10/2014 - 2:50pm.

of the North East "Pravadens" may provide a print media opportunity for the shady screwball type.