Inquirer
Someone Must Have Waterboarded Ed Rendell
Someone Must Have Waterboarded Ed Rendell. The former guv had announced that he was done speaking to the media about his potential deal to purchase […]
Should the New York Times Take Over for the Inquirer?
Has there been a more depressing week for Philadelphia media in recent memory? In the last few days, we’ve learned that A) the separate identities […]
Inky, Daily News and Philly.com Journalists Circulate Anti-Censorship Petition
A petition began circulating last night amongst journalists at the Philadelphia Media Network denouncing censorship. The move comes in the wake of management decisions that […]
Inquirer and Daily News Keep Investigative Reporters
This is How the Inky, Daily News and Philly.com Will Consolidate Coverage. This morning, an Inquirer piece explains how the editorial coverage of the Inquirer, […]
Inquirer Staffers Want Out, Buyout Details Emerge
Today is the first day of the 14-day buyout period for Daily News, Inquirer and philly.com personnel, and three Inquirer newsroom employees have volunteered to participate, […]
Buzz Bissinger Questions Ed Rendell’s Inquirer Motives
In an op-ed in the New York Times, Buzz Bissinger–as in the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, author of the Ed Rendell-centered Prayer for the City, […]
Inky and Daily News Cutting 37 Jobs
Inquirer and Daily News to Cut 37 Positions From Edit/Art Staffs. Yesterday afternoon, Victor Fiorillo learned that the Philadelphia Media Network, the papers’ parent company, […]
Mass Layoffs Imminent at Inquirer, Daily News? [UPDATE]
This afternoon at 4 p.m., members of the Newspaper Guild labor union will meet with Philadelphia Media Network, the company that owns the Inquirer, Daily […]
HughE Dillon: Greg Osberg Crowned Mardi Gras King
For the fifth year, the Epilepsy Foundation Eastern Pennsylvania (EFEPA) hosted its Annual Mardi Gras Gala, complete with beads, masks and boas for guests. This […]
Bart Blatstein to Start New Paper in Philadelphia?
What do you do when the big boys won’t let you play in their games? You start your own. Bart Blatstein—upset that he and his […]
Lawyers Want Judge in Catholic Church Scandal Case to Recuse Herself Because of Comments on Philly.com
And here we were thinking that no one cared about the comments on Philly.com. Defense attorneys in the case against Monsignor William J. Lynn want […]
Rendell’s First Inquirer Bailout Didn’t Work
Famed political strategist James Carville once referred to Pennsylvania as two major cities with Alabama in between. What an insult to Alabama. From Ed Rendell […]
Rendell’s First Inquirer Bailout Didn’t Work
Famed political strategist James Carville once referred to Pennsylvania as two major cities with Alabama in between. What an insult to Alabama. From Ed Rendell […]
UPDATE: Bart Blatstein Wants to Buy the Inky, Too
Another Philly power player is getting his ducks in a row with the hopes of acquiring the city’s daily newspapers. Developer Bart Blatstein has assembled […]
How Ed Rendell Could Ruin Philadelphia’s Newspapers
“There are laws to protect the freedom of the press’s speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.” — […]