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What They’re Saying About Lewis Katz

What they’re saying about Lewis Katz, the Inquirer co-owner who died Saturday night in a plane crash in Massachusetts:

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Inquirer, Daily News Co-Owner Lewis Katz Dies in Massachusetts Plane Crash

The Inquirer reports that one of its owners died in a plane crash last night: Lewis Katz, 72, co-owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Daily […]

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Lewis Katz: I Really Thought Norcross Wanted to Own It, Didn’t You?

There were a lot of people shocked Tuesday when Lewis Katz and Gerry Lenfest emerged the winners over George Norcross in the bidding for Philadelphia’s […]

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Marimow, Inquirer Fight Back Against McCaffery Lawsuit

The Inquirer has struck back against a lawsuit from Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffery, defending the accuracy of its reporting — and its right […]

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3 Ideas to Jump-Start Innovation at the Inquirer and Daily News

Well, the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News are under new ownership, which looks a lot like the old ownership. Somewhat distressingly, Lewis Katz and Gerry […]

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6 Burning Questions About the New Owners of the Inquirer and Daily News

Now that the Inky ownership battle has been resolved in favor of Lewis Katz and H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest, the guys we used to refer to […]

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Katz, Lenfest Winners of Inquirer, Daily News, Philly.com Auction

https://twitter.com/joelmmathis/status/471303764318908416 Joel Mathis is on the scene of the auction of the Inquirer and Daily News, where it’s just been announced that the group led […]

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Today Is the First Day of the Rest of the Inquirer’s Life

Well, I was almost right. A year-and-a-half ago, I took stock of the then-new ownership of Philly’s major daily newspapers and offered the following declaration: […]

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Inky Auction to Be Held Today

UPDATE: The auction is over. Katz and Lenfest have prevailed. ORIGINAL: Once upon a time, less than a decade ago, Knight Ridder owned Philadelphia’s two […]

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Black & White and Dead All Over Now Available on Amazon Prime

Black & White and Dead All Over, the documentary about the long, slow, sad decline of newspapers, and Philly newspapers specifically, is now available to […]

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Judge: Media Will Be Shut Out of Newspaper Auction

Make of this what you will: The media will be shut out of next week’s auction of the Inquirer, Daily News, and Philly.com. The “closed” […]

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Filing: Inky Publisher Was “Disappointed” in McCaffery Story

Will Inky publisher Bob Hall end up being the star witness in a Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice’s lawsuit against his paper? That appears to be […]

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Will the Media Be Shut Out of the Inky Auction?

Ralph Cipriano at BigTrial.Net brings us all the details of the auction that will determine the future of the Inquirer, Daily News, and Philly.com. It’s […]

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Even Professional Journalists Hate Inquirer.com

Via Romenesko, comes the sad tale of a Washington Post reporter trying, fruitlessly, to read a story on Inquirer.com .@PhillyInquirer @tomfitzgerald I give up on […]

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Inky Print Circulation Continues to Decline

Print circulation at the Philadelphia Inquirer continues a precipitous decline, according to numbers released today by the Alliance for Audited Media.