You Say Hemorrhage, I Say Attrition.(exodus of reporters from the Providence Journal)

The Newspaper Guild local calls it a "talent hemorrhage." Management calls it normal attrition. Whatever is happening at the Providence Journal, winner of four Pulitzer Prizes and in extent known as a "writer's paper," this frequently is true: At least 35 recently made knowns staffers have left since January 2000 just before the union's contract expired, a number of them longtime, reverenceed reporters.

"Things right now are not copacetic at the Providence Journal," says G Wayne Miller, united of the paper's star writers and a 20-year employee Miller and others describe a