A small group of journalism practitioners in Philadelphia were treated with the chance to have dinner and throw questions at MinnPost CEO Joel Kramer Tuesday night. Kramer is the former publisher of the Minneapolis Start-Tribune and a frequent example of success in growing public affairs journalism online. I was blessed to be among them and [...]

News has broken of the new CEO of the multi-million dollar journalism initiative housed at Temple, a project I’ve written about before here, but I hadn’t seen any confirmation posted yet, so I thought I’d share the press release from Temple that was sent my way. PRESS RELEASE: PHILADELPHIA – The Center for Public Interest [...]

Ownership concerns be damned, the publisher of the largest news organization in one of the largest markets in the country needs to make a major shake up in company structure and output or face a continued decline. The Philadelphia Media Network, owners of the city’s two daily newspapers and most trafficked news site, announced almost [...]

When one looks at the depths of U.S. presidential politics, there is a balance between who is perceived as having succeeded and who has failed. We write thick biographies and create college courses on the considerable accomplishments of our favorites. In pragmatic contrast, there is an old saw that means to convey how much federal [...]

I’m a fan of the fun collections of ideas, images and concepts that find their way onto personal Tumblr accounts, often driven by crowdsourcing contributions. Recently a handful of ideas have come to mind that I wish were actively being created by someone. I’d happily contribute. Ridiculous local TV lower thirds — As depicted above, [...]

Social entrepreneurship is an opportunity for Philadelphia to create a regional distinction for attracting and retaining startup talent, was the central theme of my Pecha Kucha presentation Saturday night. It was an extension of my writing on social entrepreneurship here. The lightning talk event, in which a dozen speakers use 20 seconds for each of [...]

My good friend Eric Smith, whose successes in publishing and audience have kept me motivated, wrote some very flattering things in celebration of his own birthday, mostly about how we love to faux battle by way of our respective geek blogs Geekadelphia and Technically Philly. An excerpt: … Without realizing it, Chris had finally given [...]