Posts Tagged ‘New York’

Introducing the 67th ward

With a bit of a twinkle in our eyes, my colleagues Brian James Kirk and Sean Blanda, today, we launch a small testament to our love for that city that lives in Philadelphia’s historic shadow: New York. Today, we launch the 67th ward. It’s not much now and probably won’t be in the future. Just [...]

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Reflections on CUNY graduate school New Journalism Models Hyperlocal camp

Highly localized news and its intersection with profitable, sustainable news is already starting to dominate conversations about the future of news in the United States. The numbers and business plans, relationships with each other and with legacy news organizations and who will be written into history for leading the movement seemed trending themes of the  [...]

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The Northeastern U.S. Cities: an embarrassment of urban riches

This is a conversation I’ve had too many times. I am in Washingto D.C. today, the day after Martin Luther King day, for the inauguration of Barack Obama. While I will have much more to say on that in coming days, being here reminded me of how often we in the mid-Atlantic take for granted what [...]

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I heart John Baer: Move Pennsylvania Society weekend from NYC to Philly

One of the largest and, admittedly, one of the many embarrassments of old Philadelphia is that the annual Pennsylvania Society dinner is held in midtown Manhattan. It seems like a suggestion that Pennsylvania’s largest city – the city of firsts, the workshop of the world, the first great city of the United States – isn’t [...]

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Domestic Travel in 2007

In 2007, I was blessed with several opportunities to explore new corners of this great country of ours.

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