Articles

It’s all about the benjamins, baby. It wasn’t terribly long ago that GoLocalProv made some headlines when city councilor(s) reviewed them getting a nice chunk of change from Providence for doing this same service. That one was especially ridiculous since GoLocalProv has no physical edition and the notices were buried on their website. One of […]

Afitz93 2y agoWell, it’s a good thing then that there’s a department of health, not just a singular minister of health. It’s very clear that there’s an extremely vocal minority asking for reaction to case counts, while the great majority have accepted it as part of their lives and will assess the risk on their […]

So I stumbled upon some old articles alleging the CEO of GoLocalProv, Josh Fenton, of not paying employees and in general being an asshole. Can anyone confirm? Between the garbage they peddle and the shady deal they had with the Providence City Council nothing would surprise me. “I have. Josh Fenton is a crook and a hustler […]

The website GoLocalProv.com, based in Providence, Rhode Island, published in 2010 allegations that Akhmetov had ties to organized crime. Subsequently, PolitiFact engaged in a review of the allegations on GoLocalProv’s site and disputed the sources on which they were based, stating that “key elements of the GoLocalProv story are false or unproven” and that the […]

Read more: https://www.city-data.com/forum/rhode-island/3449445-washington-bridge-closure-2.html

The city of Providence’s law department is reviewing the procurement of a no-bid contract brokered by former City Council president Luis Aponte and news website GoLocalProv in 2016, Mayor Jorge Elorza said in a statement Thursday. The contract, made public Tuesday by City Council President David Salvatore, states that the city agreed to pay GoLocalProv […]

Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza said Thursday a no-bid advertising contract between the city clerk’s office and media outlet GoLocalProv “reeks of cronyism,” blaming then-City Council President Luis Aponte for entering into the agreement. Elorza’s statement came two days after current Council President David Salvatore called on GoLocalProv to return $67,500 it received from the city […]

Providence City Council President David Salvatore is calling on news website GoLocalProv.com to return $67,500 that it received from the city over nearly two years as part of a no-bid contract to publish meeting notices. Salvatore looked into the city’s “strange arrangement” with GoLocalProv through an audit of past city contracts, according to a statement […]

City of Providence Council President David Salvatore is questioning a city contract between then-Council President Luis Aponte and website GoLocalProv. In a statement sent out by Chief of Staff Emily Martineau, Salvatore referred to a 2016 agreement as a “shady deal” which saw the city pay GoLocalProv $3,000 a month to publish city meeting notices […]

Trash. I wouldn’t be surprised is Josh Fenton, the owner, wrote it himself. It’s too bad because he was a URI grad. Instead of pushing out anything worthy of journalism the put out these trash, clickbait articles. I’ve heard from a few different colleagues that they will pitch you on buying advertisements and if you […]

The Providence City Solicitor says a contract between a former city council president and a local news website is “invalid and unenforceable.” The current City Council President, David Salvatore, publicized the contract, which involved paying GoLocalProv $67,500 over two years to publish meeting notices, last week. The Providence Journal reports Salvatore is calling on the website to […]

We exposed GoLocalWorcester last week because their owner, Josh Fenton, is a proven liar who claims to get 3.4 million pageviews a month, but in reality, gets closer to 200,000. The problem is that Josh bases his page views on lies, which we have proven. He then goes to potential advertisers and tells them he’s gonna charge them […]

Be careful what you say or write about two Ukrainian billionaires, Rinat Akhmetov and Dmytro Firtash. If they really take offense, they might file a libel lawsuit against you in London. “The Ukrainian incident,” as local experts refer to it, came to nothing also in a literal sense. Stories about the controversy have been scrubbed […]

His Internet lawsuits are legendary down in Rhode Island, and he’s basically made a career out of whining about other people “plagiarizing” GoLocal. But this article from GoLocalProv might be his most hilarious work yet. Basically GoLocalProv reported the now infamous story about the Danny Amendola carport, and now he’s mad that the AP wrote about it […]

GoLocalWorcester doesn’t own anything just because they wrote a blog about a picture someone sent them. Josh Fenton doesn’t even live in Massachusetts and has no office in Worcester, which is weird considering he runs a site called GoLocalWorcester. Read the full article here

I had my suspicions, this confirmed it. Ty Read the full discussion here

Looking through Glassdoor today and saw two very damning reviews that align with things also seen on reddit. Review 1: Pros while at GoLocalProv, I had the opportunity to meet several interesting people outside the company and improve my professional network. Cons I was hired at GoLocal under the promise that I would be given […]

The troll was banned from reddit as a whole, not the subreddit. Read the full discussion here

GoLocal Owner Josh Fenton Never Paid Portland Writer Byron Beck $3,000 Because He Is A Pathological Liar I’ve emailed with Josh before and he was very unpleasant to work with, according to the sales rep I worked with briefly, they built the company by buying out popular Facebook pages and converting them to outlets for […]

Never actually paid me said great rates. Read the full review here

I was hired at GoLocal under the promise that I would be given the opportunity to learn. My salary was less than the listed minimum because I “lacked sufficient experience.” It quickly became evident that I would not be given sufficient time to learn and adapt to my role, nor the support I requested and […]

Prepare to be berated by the CEO and receive very little compensation, if any, for your work. As an unpaid intern I was on call throughout the entire week in the event of breaking news. Instead of relying on paid staff, it’s much cheaper to delegate tasks out to the free work provided by college […]

You can only write down so many but here goes: • Not paid on time ever or at all. I tried to get my paychecks from Mr. Fenton for some time and they were sent back to me unsigned, and thus, I couldn’t get paid because the business isn’t legitimate enough to offer direct deposit. […]

Byron Beck says: “I’m very grateful that BOLI was able to help vulnerable journalists.” Rhode Island-based news website GoLocalPDX has paid a total of $5,125 to three former contributors who filed wage complaints with state regulators. The three journalists—Catalina Gaitan, Melanie Sevcenko and Byron Beck—complained to the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries that GoLocalPDX owed them unpaid wages. GoLocalPDX owner Josh Fenton says he sent […]

There are signs of distress at the Rhode Island-based news website. GoLocalPDX, the Rhode Island-based news website, made a big splash when it arrived in Portland in 2014, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars from local businesspeople, including tech investor Debi Coleman and hotelier Gordon Sondland. Now there are signs of distress at the news website. Byron Beck, […]

Josh Fenton doesn’t like to pay his writers, and now one of them, a featured writer for GoLocal Portland, is doing something about it. As you know, Turtleboy Sports had a partnership with GoLocalWorcester that lasted a couple months back in the winter. Here’s what their owner Josh Fenton said about our arrival as a […]

Providence City Councilman and former City Council President David Salvatore released a scathing press release on Monday afternoon criticizing local website GoLocalProv for making ‘vicious and false accusations’ against him and labeling the site ‘the epitome of fake news.’ Salvatore spoke with WPRO’s Dan Yorke about his issues with the site on Monday afternoon. Salvatore says that […]

Sketchiest job experience ever! Do your research before you apply, especially on CEO Josh Fenton. During the interview the Mr. Fenton, went out of his way to tell me “don’t worry, you won’t be a slave or anything”, which is… a pretty major red flag. He also was very illusive about paperwork. He even changed […]

However in this case the coms certainly outweigh the pros. I still am chasing down money from Mr. Fenton, and he was nothing but rude and dishonest during my time there. There is also no downtime. Fenton owns you while you there, and your phone and laptop must be on hand at all times-whether its […]

The website GoLocalProv.com, based in Providence, Rhode Island, published in 2010 allegations that Akhmetov had ties to organized crime. Subsequently, PolitiFact engaged in a review of the allegations on GoLocalProv’s site and disputed the sources on which they were based, stating that “key elements of the [GoLocalProv] story are false or unproven” and that the story presented “suspicions, suggestions, […]

Given Lincoln Chafee’s record of being willing to buck the system and the Chafee family’s reputation, Rhode Islanders were jarred to hear the independent gubernatorial candidate being accused of consorting with someone who might have ties to organized crime. But on Oct. 7, GoLocalProv, a five-month-old local news website, published the headline “International Intrigue: Chafee […]

The Complainant alleges that the City Council violated the OMA on September 11, 2019 when it convened a working group outside of the public purview. The City Council maintains that no quorum of the City Council was present on September 11, 2019 and, in any event, that the working group, which advises the City Council […]

Plaintiff claimed that “Pierson owns all rights to an image of Robert Nardolillo (‘Infringing Image’). She registered the Infringing Image with the U.S. Copyright Office and has Copyright Registration No. VA0001926344 (September 23, 2014).” Plaintiff claimed that “GLP and/or Fenton owned and/or operated the website located at the URL www.golocalprov.com” and “At no time have […]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Providence City Solicitor’s Office has found that a no-bid contract between former City Council President Luis Aponte and news website GoLocalProv was “invalid and unenforceable,” according to a statement from current City Council President David Salvatore. Salvatore last week publicized the contract, which involved the city paying GoLocalProv $67,500 over the […]

I’ve emailed with Josh before and he was very unpleasant to work with. According to the Sales Rep I worked with briefly, they built the company by buying out popular facebook pages and converting them to outlets for their stories. I believe I heard that the City has blacklisted golocal for publishing false information and […]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A day after her two main Democratic primary challengers criticized her for not participating in a round-table debate, Gov. Gina Raimondo said she skipped the discussion because one of those challengers, Matt Brown, “lies.” Brown, a former Rhode Island secretary of state, “is running, and from the beginning has run, a really […]

There was another ridiculous story put out by our friends at GoLocal. I will not link it, I didn’t read it, I was sent the headline and laughed, as should anyone. For anyone who does not understand how 21st century ad revenue is generated, every time you click on a story, share a story, retweet […]

Please, dear god in heaven, never, ever, EVER, under any circumstance, get a job here. I struggle to even know where to begin. Mr. Fenton (CEO) is truly, the worst person I have ever met in my entire life. He knows how to be nice to people at first and give him the benefit of […]

Ceo is a lier not only about what the job entails but also clearly lies about the product to his prospects as its dying and the big push for live content never exceeds 5 concurrent viewers Read the full review here

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Providence City Council President David Salvatore is calling on news website GoLocalProv.com to return $67,500 that it received from the city over nearly two years as part of a no-bid contract to publish meeting notices. Salvatore looked into the city’s “strange arrangement” with GoLocalProv through an audit of past city contracts, according […]