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Blocked by GoLocal
By Bob Plain on July 29, 2018
GoLocalProv’s company catchphrases is: “See it. Read it. Share it.” But the often-abrasive tabloid-esque news website doesn’t always make it easy to share – or even see – its content on Twitter. Especially for local reporters.
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Are the documents Phil Eil is requesting from the DEA public?
By Bob Plain on January 22, 2016
“Is Eil getting the run-around from the feds? He told me an FBI agent subpoenaed him as a witness during the trial and he wonders if that was a ploy to keep him from covering the trial as a journalist.”
Posted in Activism, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice | Tagged Freedom of Information Act, phil eil | Leave a response
‘Wage theft, plain and simple’: My letter to WPRO and Cumulus Media
By Phil Eil on April 28, 2015
Editor’s note: Former Phoenix editor-turned-freelance journalist Phil Eil says WPRO owes him $1,350 for four stories he wrote in late 2014. He agreed to share the below letter he sent to the Cumulus-owned radio station’s corporate office in Atlanta, as well as the local manager in Rhode Island. “I gave WPRO and Cumulus the benefit […]
Posted in Corporate Greed, Labor | Tagged cumulus, phil eil, wage theft, wpro | 1 Response
ACLU, Phil Eil sue DEA for public records requested 3 years ago
By Steven Brown on March 20, 2015
The ACLU of Rhode Island filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of local journalist, Philip Eil, who has been stymied for more than three years in his effort to obtain access to thousands of pages of public evidence from a major prescription drug-dealing trial. The lawsuit, against the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), […]
Posted in Civil Rights, Featured, Media, News | Tagged ACLU, Civil Rights / Liberties, phil eil, public records, Rhode Island | Leave a response

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