Media
Philadelphia Newspaper War Will Resume on Nov. 13
The legal war between the owners of Philadelphia’s major daily newspapers will continue on Nov. 13, a judge said today. The major participants in that […]
Larry Platt, Buzz Bissinger, Others Creating The Philadelphia Citizen
Looks like there’s going to be a new media organization in town: The Philadelphia Citizen—led by former Philly Mag and Daily News editor Larry Platt—looks to […]
Raymond Perelman Offers to Resolve Newspaper War, Buy the Inquirer
The Inquirer reports this morning about a twist in the war between the owners of Interstate General Media, which owns the Inquirer, Daily News, and […]
Some Good News for Philadelphia Newspapers: Daily Circulation is Up [Updated]
We told you yesterday that Interstate General Media—the company that owns the Inquirer, Daily News, and Philly.com—was on the verge of profitability for the first […]
UPDATE: City Paper Is Out of Twitter Jail
UPDATE: After more than 24 hours on some sort of Twitter spam list, the City Paper‘s Twitter operations are now back to normal. It looks […]
Nobody Knows Who the Inky’s News Columnists Are
Two developments this morning to mention in the ongoing war between the owners of the Inquirer, Daily News, and Philly.com. First, we mentioned this yesterday […]
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 […]
I Don’t Hate Publicists
As I sit here writing this article, I am currently blocked from posting anything to Facebook, commenting on anything on Facebook, or even liking anything […]
Brian Tierney Exits the Inquirer. Again.
Just a day after Ralph Cipriano reported former publisher Brian Tierney was back at the Inquirer on a $25,000-a-month advertising gig, Tierney is reportedly out […]
Philadelphia’s Newspapers Are Almost Profitable Again
After years of declining revenues and weeks of bitter infighting among owners, one bit of good news emerged Tuesday about the the Philadelphia Inquirer and […]
Newspaper Guild Says It Offered to Buy Out Papers, Was Rebuffed
The union representing the journalists of the Inquirer and Daily News has offered to buy out the current warring ownership, but was rebuffed. Bill Ross, […]
75 Years Have Passed Since Martians Invaded New Jersey
Tomorrow marks 75 years since one of the great mass media hoaxes—accidental—of the Media Age: Orson Welles’ broadcast of The World of The Worlds: And […]
We Interrupt This Program to Announce That — Yawn — Shepard Smith Is Gay
Is Fox News anchor Shepard Smith gay? Who cares? In an unmistakable sign that we’ve evolved into a true post-gay culture, Gawker’s so-called outing of […]
Mike Nutter Hates WHYY Pledge Drives As Much As You
Every year I get suckered into thinking that my contribution to the local public radio outfit will somehow make the local public radio outfit stop […]
Fake Fox News Commenter Scandal Worse Than You Thought
Earlier this week, the world learned that Fox News was fighting back against the lamestream media and its loyalists by planting fake good-PR trolls in […]