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(Updated, 3:20 p.m.) The Boston Phoenix will close immediately, as will WFNX.com, the company’s online radio station, reported Boston.com.
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An agreement between Martha’s Vineyard’s once Internet-exclusive mvyradio.com and Rhode Island Public Radio will allow the Massachusetts-based station to continue operating on its Newport signal, reaching listeners on the surrounding Aquidneck Island and town of Narragansett.
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Dana L. Priest, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for The Washington Post, will receive the Pell Center prize for “Story in the Public Square” in recognition of her investigative reporting career, the center announced Tuesday.
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Lin TV Corp., saw its profit plummet even as revenue rose during the fourth quarter and 2012 as a whole, the company reported Thursday. The decrease was mostly due to a $94 million charge from an agreement between Lin Texas, Comcast and General Electric.
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More than 250 members of the Rhode Island business community weathered the cold rain on Wednesday morning to attend the Providence Business News Social Media and Marketing Summit.
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Three Rhode Island companies – J/Boats, C&C Fiberglass Components and Bluenose Yacht Sales – were honored in Bristol on Friday for earning recognition in Sailing World magazine’s Boat of the Year Awards.
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Training Magazine, a professional and workforce development publication, has ranked Gilbane Building Co.’s new sales model one of the most “innovative and successful” among firms in its “Top 125 Organizations” list.
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LinkedIn has become the most common social media tool used by companies on Inc. magazine’s 2012 Inc. 500 list, according to a study released Tuesday by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
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A.H. Belo Corp., the parent company of the Providence Journal and three other daily newspapers, saw its net income fall 5.2 percent to $2.6 million, or 11 cents per diluted share during the fourth quarter, but moved into the black for the whole of 2012.
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Providence Business News took two first-place awards in the New England Newspaper and Press Association’s Better Newspaper Competition, one for website design and another for a three-part series about the transformation of the Jewelry District in Providence into the Knowledge District.
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