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Philly.com Hires Next City Editor
Philly.com has made another high-profile hire — bringing Diana Lind, the editor in chief at Next City, aboard to be its director of digital audience […]
Meet the New Philly.com Brain Trust
Meet the new braintrust of Philly.com. These are the guys who may hold the future of Philadelphia’s two major daily newspapers in their hands. Mike […]
(Update) Inquirer, Daily News Continue Circulation Decline
Updated with comment from a company spokesman. Print circulation at the Philadelphia Inquirer continues its long slide, according to preliminary numbers from the Alliance for […]
Report: Comcast Was Offered Chance to Buy Washington Post
The Financial Times has an in-depth look today at Comcast’s attempt to merge with Time Warner Cable that includes this unexpected tidbit: Before Amazon’s Jeff […]
The Inquirer Endorses Nobody for Governor
And in the 2014 Pennsylvania governor’s race, the Philadelphia Inquirer endorses … nobody. Absolutely nobody. Readers on Sunday were instead treated to a list comparing and […]
Experts: McCaffery Clearance “Unusual”
We told you Tuesday night that Seamus McCaffery, the (suspended) Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice, had dropped his defamation suit against the Inky. That paper had […]
McCaffery Drops Lawsuit Against Inky, Daily News
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffery has dropped his defamation lawsuit against the Inquirer and Daily News, the Legal Intelligencer reported Tuesday night.
Inky, Daily News Websites Shutting Down
The websites for the Inquirer and Daily News will shut down in December, leaving Philly.com as the sole website distributing the journalism of the two […]
Dead Man’s Daughter Explains His “Jewboy” Obituary
Last week, we told you that the Inquirer and Daily News apologized for the obituary that appeared in their pages for John “Jewboy” McGee. A […]
“Jewboy” Shows Up in Obituary in Inquirer and Daily News
When Wildwood’s John McGee died on October 5th, his loved ones contacted the local papers to memorialize the father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. Apparently, McGee went […]
The NYT’s Hugging Story Looks a Lot Like the Inky’s
The Inquirer seems to be ahead of the Times. Last Friday, The New York Times ran a column titled “The Bro Hug: Embracing a Change in […]
Tony Auth, Pulitzer-Winning Cartoonist, Has Died
Tony Auth, who for four decades satirized the city’s foibles as the editorial cartoonist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, has died of cancer at age 72.
(UPDATE) Gerry Lenfest Is Tom Corbett’s Fifth-Biggest Donor
[Update 6 p.m.] Interstate General Media, the company that owns the papers and Philly.com, sends along a statement saying the donations are old news: In […]
Ruderman Responds to Inquirer Takedown on Facebook
Wendy Ruderman, one-half of the Daily News‘ Pulitzer-winning duo whose work has come under scrutiny by the Philadelphia Inquirer, took to Facebook today to rebut […]
Karen Heller Says Goodbye at Inky
Karen Heller, the longtime Philadelphia Inquirer columnist, is leaving that job to become a features writer at the Washington Post. Heller made the announcement Sunday […]