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The Inky Should Go Online Only and Other Radical Ideas to Save Philly Newspapers
It’s time to do something different—radically different—to save Philadelphia’s major daily newspapers. This is just a rough estimate, but the Inquirer and Daily News in […]
UPDATED: Norcross, Majority Owners Offer $29 Million to Buy Out Newspaper Partners
[Update: 4:02 pm] Newsworks reports that Lewis Katz has rejected Norcross’s buyout offer. “Katz summarily rejected the notion in a brief telephone interview, but indicated he’d […]
Clark Kent Quits the Daily Planet. Read: Superman Can’t Save Newspapers.
When the Man of Steel can’t save the newspaper business, is there any hope for the real Daily Planets of the galaxy? In the latest issue […]
Can Philly Newspapers Be Saved?
Should the Daily News Close?
Is There a Hero in the Ownership Battle?
Writer Steve Volk is a longtime observer of the Philadelphia media scene — so he brings a substantial foundation to this month’s Philly Mag print […]
12-Year-Old Writes Newspaper Op-Ed Decrying “State Patty’s Day”
The cynic in you is thinking, “yeah that’s because she can’t drink.” But hear out Katie Maguire’s Daily Collegian op-ed on State Patty’s Day, the Bud […]
PMN to Journalists: Here’s How You Can Cross Picket Lines
With a possible strike by the Newspaper Guild looming, Philadelphia Media Network today sent employees a memo apparently aimed at getting them — or at […]
Is Upstart Metro Buying City Paper?
Metro, the free daily tabloid newspaper, is reportedly looking to buy Philadelphia City Paper, the stalwart alt-weekly that has been buffeted in recent years by […]
While Owners Feud, Inky and Daily News Suffer
Morale is busted, advertisers uncertain, and Philadelphia’s newspapers are edging closer to another bankruptcy, lawyers for the papers’ feuding owners said in documents filed with […]
Good Circulation News for Philly Papers?
Oh lordy. Look at that. There appears to be some good news—at long last—for Philadelphia’s two major daily newspapers. Granted, that good news wasn’t easy […]
Photographer Captures Heartbreaking Scenes of the Inquirer’s Old Offices
Photographer Will Steacy, whose father worked at the Inky for 29 years, has chronicled the paper’s recent struggles through a series of images documenting the months […]
Suburban Philly Papers May Go On Sale
Nieman Journalism Lab is reporting that Digital First Media — which owns dozens of community newspapers nationally, including a few in the Philadelphia suburbs and […]
Owners Threaten to “Liquidate” Inky, Daily News Without Immediate Union Concessions
The new owners of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News are threatening to become the former owners of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News unless […]
Why Is Brian Tierney Getting a Big Journalism Award?
So: Brian Tierney is getting a big journalism award. Really. The Poynter Institute announced Tuesday that Tierney — who was publisher of the Inquirer, Daily […]
Philly Weekly, Northeast Times Sold to N.J. Circular Company
A company that drops circulars on Philadelphia-area doorsteps just got a bit bigger. Donnelly Distribution, a Pennsauken-based circular distribution company that was previously a minority […]
Is Brian Tierney Coming Back to the Inquirer?
At the Philadelphia Inquirer, it seems, everything old will eventually become new again. Thus we have Ralph Cipriano’s report that some members of the newspaper’s […]