Today — yes on Thanksgiving — I’m happy to say I have the cover story on this week’s Philadelphia City Paper, the popular alternative newsweekly, profiling Chris Bartlett and his push to chronicle the lives of 4,600 gay men he says died in Philadelphia after being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. Chris Bartlett sits down with his [...]

Front-page story for the Patriot-News: This isn’t about lowering the drinking age. That’s what Dickinson College President William Durden will tell you. This is about watching parents follow their freshman sons and daughters into dormitories with beer in tow. “We have a societal problem towards the attitude of alcohol that we have to fix,” Durden [...]

This on Page One of today’s Patriot-News: Erich Scherfen developed a love for flying early. Growing up in New Jersey, he would play outside and watch airplanes fly toward John F. Kennedy Airport. After military service, he became a commercial airline pilot. Today, the Gulf War veteran is fighting to keep his professional life in [...]

BY John L. Micek and Christopher Wink | A1 story, below the fold HARRISBURG – Carbon and Monroe counties would each be in line for one of the nine cashless toll sites on Interstate 80 under a plan announced Wednesday by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission. The sites proposed for Monroe would sit somewhere between Exit [...]

By Christopher Wink | July 29, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer HARRISBURG – They call themselves, simply, “the Coalition.” They are an informal group of about a half-dozen citizen activists – most of them middle-aged men from Central Pennsylvania – who spend their time waging a grassroots war for governmental change in the Capitol. Each member [...]

See it on the front page of the Inquirer at Newseum.com. HARRISBURG – They call themselves, simply, “the Coalition.” They are an informal group of about a half-dozen citizen activists – most of them middle-aged men from Central Pennsylvania – who spend their time waging a grassroots war for governmental change in the Capitol. Each [...]

This ran today for the Philadelphia Inquirer. The coverage is part of a post-graduate internship with the Pennsylvania Legislative Correspondents’ Association (PLCA). HARRISBURG – State Rep. Babette Josephs came to the Capitol in 1985 vowing to be a voice for “people who have no voice.” For years, the Center City liberal waged a lonely fight [...]

It what may be the most significant story of my young journalism career, here a double byline for a story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. This breaking story appeared on the Web and an extensive follow up will appear in tomorrow’s edition. HARRISBURG – Preliminary arraignments were held today for 11 people charged in the state [...]

I didn’t make it clear that this story is on the cover, which is exciting, though, again, like another clip, a double byline. See PDF of Today’s Post-Gazette here. Number of Views:225

How about a front-page, double byline on the cover of today’s Pittsburgh Tribune-Review? How about two? Number of Views:568