Philadelphia Inquirer

Escaping Domestic Violence: Ms. J's Struggle

Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 10.23.2009 | Impact


A woman's struggle with domestic violence doesn't always end after escape from the abuser. As Annette John-Hall reports in the Philadelphia Inquirer, ...

Philadelphia Newspapers' Creditors Get Higher Bid

AP | MARYCLAIRE DALE | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media


PHILADELPHIA — A local group sweetened its bid for The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News on Wednesday, saying it would pay anoth...

Yoo's Bad Lawyering, Not Investigations, Threatens CIA

Frank Naif | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics


Frank Naif

Instead of using his op-ed soapbox to defend his own indefensible legal justifications of an immoral torture program, maybe Yoo should offer to take the investigative heat for the brave CIA men and women.

Philadelphia Newspapers Hope For Debt-Free Bankruptcy

AP | MARYCLAIRE DALE | Posted 09.21.2009 | Media


PHILADELPHIA — Two large Philadelphia daily newspapers hope to emerge from bankruptcy debt-free by paying creditors $37 million in cash plus rea...

Same Old Philly ...

Charles D. Ellison | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics


Charles D. Ellison

The Valley Club swimming incident reminds us of the Philly we grew up with and still know; that plain-spoken, steely segregated union town where the racial and economic demographics are very clear cut.

Remembering My Battle Against Fundamentalists

Jim Luce | Posted 08.06.2009 | New York


Jim Luce

Our biggest accomplishment was standing up for those torn down by the TV evangelists.

Colbert Hates Yoo: Takes On Philadelphia Inquirer For Hiring Torture Defender, Mocks Liberal Media For Terrible Puns (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 06.21.2009 | Comedy


Yes, yes, I know, I did it again. In the grand tradition of using John Yoo's name to create dad-jokesque headlines, I too am to blame. But I never tor...

Jason Linkins

Philadelphia Inquirer Defends Hiring John Yoo As Columnist

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.13.2009 | Media


The Philadelphia Inquirer is a bankrupt newspaper run by a guy who hates David Axelrod that spends what meager monies it has paying ungodly sums to pe...

The Philadelphia Inquirer and John Yoo

John McQuaid | Posted 06.13.2009 | Media


John McQuaid

Yoo's hiring at the Inquirer is an assent to the dangerous notion that if the U.S. government engaged in torture no matter how reprehensible it might be, it must have some legitimacy.

Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: May 12, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.12.2009 | Media


With John and Elizabeth Edwards back in the news, Matt Yglesias espies Michael Tomasky ruminating on what can get you "banished from public life," and...

John Yoo, Torture Memo Author, Gets Monthly Column

Philadelphia Inquirer | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics


By late last year, the world already knew a great deal about John Yoo, the Philadelphia native and conservative legal scholar whose tenure in the Bush...

Jason Linkins

Bankrupt Inquirer Paying Boom Prices For Santorum Column

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.18.2009 | Media


Ahh, the Philadelphia Inquirer. They're having a rough time of it this year, what with the whole economic downturn and its attendant media apocalypse...

How Journalism Plays Twister...To the Right

Will Bunch | Posted 05.16.2009 | Media


Will Bunch

It's so true that freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose -- and so our brush here with terminal illness is occasionally truly liberating for America's newsrooms.

Analyst: Major American City Will Be Newspaper-Less By 2010

New York Times | Richard Perez Pena | Posted 04.12.2009 | Media


The history of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer stretches back more than two decades before Washington became a state, but after 146 years of publishing...

Philadelphia Daily News To Be Edition Of Inquirer

AP | Posted 04.03.2009 | Media


PHILADELPHIA — The company that owns both the Philadelphia Daily News and The Philadelphia Inquirer will start publishing the tabloid Daily News...

Authors of Our Own Demise

Ed Madison | Posted 04.02.2009 | Media


Ed Madison

It's not too late for the media business, if we are willing to meet mighty challenges with bold and immediate action.

Philadelphia Newspapers Owner Files For Bankruptcy Protection

AP | BOB LENTZ | Posted 03.25.2009 | Media


PHILADELPHIA — The owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Sunday in an effort...

Jason Linkins

Behind The Philadelphia Inquirer's Split Decision On Endorsement

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.22.2008 | Media


In making their endorsement for President, the Philadelphia Inquirer said: These times demand steady, focused leadership. Leadership that takes Ameri...

What the Media Missed in a Plan for Repeal

Steve Ralls | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics


Steve Ralls

Anyone who read the headlines this week about Senator Barack Obama's support for ending the federal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" ban on lesbian, gay and bi...

Philadelphia Inquirer Editor: Obama Disgracing Those Who Suffered or Died Wearing Uniform

Steve Young | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media


Steve Young

Wes Clark's comments were not a denigration of the uniform, but a reflection of our Constitution, a document that our troops have fought and died to protect for over 200 years.

Taking Papers Private No Easier Than Running Them Publicly

Fortune | Devin Leonard | Posted 06.18.2008 | Business


NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Brian Tierney was pretty cocky when he and a group of investors bought the Philadelphia Inquirer and its sister, the tabloid Dai...

Philadelphia Newspapers Run Ads For Fake Airline Derrie-Air

AP | DEBORAH YAO | Posted 06.14.2008 | Media


PHILADELPHIA — Derrie-Air has been exposed. Readers of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News opened their papers Friday to see a...

Ex-Senator Santorum Gets Philly Inky Column

Editor & Publisher | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


A press conference will be held at 1:30 this afternoon at the Philadelphia Inquirer to announced that it has added former Sen. Rick Santorum to its st...

Community Protests Decision To Drape "Inky" Building With "Bee Movie" Ads

Philadelphia Inquirer | Patrick Kerkstra | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


A plan to temporarily drape the Inquirer-Daily News Building with a massive advertisement for the film Bee Movie was in doubt today, after community g...