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(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 […]
Philly TV News: Lots of Campaign Ads, But No Coverage
The Sunlight Foundation recently watched a half-hour of the CBS 3 local news and found a wide disparity between the number of political commercials and […]
Set Your DVR: Lady Gaga and Tony Bennet Concert Airing Friday On PBS
This Friday, October 24th at 9 p.m., the very-special Tony Bennet & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek LIVE! will air on PBS as part of the PBS Arts […]
NBC Doc May Face Trouble After Princeton Ebola Scare
NBC’s chief medical editor may not get to keep her job after creating a panic in Princeton when she broke her 21-day Ebola quarantine.
WHYY Seeks Short, Buff Part-Timer to Dress Like a Monkey
It’s a sad, sad day when you can’t get an intern to do a humiliating job like put on a monkey costume, but WHYY now […]
Wendy Ruderman Is Going to City Hall
After the last couple of years, Daily News writer Wendy Ruderman could’ve gone Hollywood: She won a Pulitzer, went to the New York Times, came back […]
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 […]
Journalists Back Neshaminy Editors
A coalition of journalists and educators from across the country have sent out a letter condemning school officials at Neshaminy for their actions against the […]
Radio Fight: WIP’s Josh Innes Goes After Mike Missanelli
Via Crossing Broad, it appears that WIP’s Josh Innes is in no mood to forgive The Fanatic’s Mike Missanelli for the latter’s tweet (later withdrawn) […]
Neshaminy School Board Member Wanted Newspaper Editors Prosecuted
We’ve told you before about the administrators at Neshaminy High School in Bucks County. Last year, student editors at The Playwickian banned the word “Redskins” […]
City Paper Is Looking Kinda Metro This Week
Hey, remember when Metro bought City Paper? You probably will when you see this week’s cover.
Bill Campbell, Revered Philadelphia Broadcaster, Dies at 91
Bill Campbell, a legendary Philadelphia sportscaster who called Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game, has died at age 91.
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 […]