1. Philadelphia Daily News, “The Cowardly Penguin,” April 18, 2012 While this cover was strange and turned a lot of heads, Sidney Crosby himself reportedly […]
Warren Buffett has a thing for medium-sized regional newspapers. Last winter, he expressed interest in buying the Tribune Company’s Allentown Morning Call. While that deal […]
ESPN this week ran Let Them Wear Towels, a documentary about the challenges that faced the first generation of women sports reporters and the sexism […]
Speaking of unexpected magazine covers, Philly’s own Mayor Michael Nutter has a byline on the front of the latest issue of Time Magazine, with an […]
Quite a brouhaha over Rolling Stone’s decision to put (alleged) Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on its cover. The outrage is coming from all quarters: Time Magazine […]
In a Monday story about Friday’s very late fireworks at the Phillies game, Daily News reporter Dana DiFilippo suggested some folks thought the ruckus had […]
Ever since Nappy-headedhogate in 2007, radio jock Dom Imus has been off Philly airwaves. Beginning Tuesday morning, from 6-9 a.m., he’ll be back, on 106.9 […]
Media is the county seat of Delaware County, and is about a half an hour from Philadelphia. With a population just over 5,000, you’d think […]
Here’s your post-Independence Day special: Slate flags the October 24th, 1781 edition of a colonial-era Philadelphia newspaper called The Freeman’s Journal: Or, the North-American Intelligencer. Address: […]
A funny thing happened on the way to the digital paywalls for the Inquirer and Daily News: I started reading Philly.com a lot more. A […]
Here’s this week’s New Yorker cover, which for obvious reasons is generating a fair amount of internet buzz right now. There you have it: Ernie […]
Here’s the blog post Daily News scribe/all-around rabble-rouser Will Bunch just posted at Philly.com: He writes: “Story complaing about high city taxes (even as it […]
The New York Times only comes around these parts where something serious is a foot. Last time we read a Trip Gabriel piece about Pennsylvania, the New […]
The Inquirer opened up Inquirer.com last week to draw golfheads to the site during the U.S. Open. Today, it’s all supposed to go back into […]
The U.S. Open is being held at the Merion Golf Club. Merion is small. We get that. Rick Reilly wants us to get it even […]
