I try to tackle the contrast between contracting libraries in Philadelphia and a surge in library-sciences programs at regional colleges in a story for today’s Style & Soul section of the Philadelphia Inquirer. You might think librarians are going the way of card catalogs. After all, many of Philadelphia’s Free Library branches are on the [...]

By Christopher Wink | Tue, Feb. 24, 2009 | Philadelphia Inquirer On Valentine’s Day, Pennsylvania Ballet staff members stood in the Merriam Theater’s lobby handing out coasters that bore what might have seemed a strange suggestion coming from an arts organization: Go to our YouTube channel. What the mostly graying matinee audience made of the [...]

The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette are officially sharing content, according to Editor & Publisher. Inquirer Editor William Marimow and Post-Gazette Editor David Shribman confirmed that they have been swapping daily budgets since Jan. 29, the latest example of the ever-growing trend of newspapers with no common ownership or JOA trading news. “We exchange [...]

By Christopher Wink | Feb. 4, 2009 | Philadelphia Inquirer Thomas Schuler is a man. Since October, he also has been without a job, a combination of characteristics that some say comes with distinct disadvantages. That’s because unemployment affects men differently than women – research shows joblessness often is emotionally harder for men to bear. [...]

I have a clip in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer on the emotional effects unemployment can have on men. Thomas Schuler is a man. Since October, he also has been without a job, a combination of characteristics that some say comes with distinct disadvantages. Read the rest here. Below see the loads of good information and quotes [...]

A personal journey essay of mine appeared in today‘s Sunday edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer. If I keep my hand steady long enough, I just might get a photograph of me racing down the steepest hill in Zürich on a bicycle. But I’ll have to settle for the shot of me standing on a dock [...]

This is the story of how more than 20 statehouse reporters fooled me into believing I had a hot-breaking story – for the second time in a month. Last week I posted that a personal essay of mine was accepted by the Columbia Journalism Review and appeared on the CJR Web site. My essay touched [...]

Man, who doesn’t have a blog. Any newspaper that can even be tossed in the conversation has someone adding to it. There is no end to the number of jerks like me doing much of the same, with less experience and knowledge but increasingly more interest than the more professional. The question, of course, is [...]

I finished a two-week rotation in the Harrisburg bureau of the Philadelphia Inquirer last month, as part of my internship with the Pennsylvania Legislative Correspondents’ Association. I’ve since moved on, but because I am in Philadelphia, I thought I would share some thoughts that came to mind about improving the third oldest daily newspaper in [...]

I believe there is some line of thought that only those who like you enough will take the time to prank you. If this is true, it is entirely possible that the Harrisburg bureau of the Philadelphia Inquirer, one of the largest and oldest metro dailies in the country, loves me. Late last month, I [...]