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Veteran Daily Journalist Expresses Preference for Alt-Weeklies

By AAN Staff
october 24, 2003  01:14 pm
Veteran Daily Journalist Expresses Preference for Alt-Weeklies
After 35 years as a reporter and editor for the Providence Journal, Brian C. Jones (pictured) left his well-paying job to become a poorly remunerated "contributing writer" at the Providence Phoenix. Jones says he made the move because the Phoenix covers important stories that the daily ignores, and it provides reporters with the freedom to produce great journalism: "The alternative papers promise their readers that they will have the smarts, the courage, and the curiosity to look into stories not just because they are ignored by the mainstream papers and the other Big Media, but because they really need telling."
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