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Billy Penn has a new lead developer and a manager for events and sales, bringing our full-time headcount to 11 after filling these crucial roles on the business and product side. Russell Heimlich, who spent time at the Pew Research Center and The Wirecutter, is Billy Penn’s new lead developer. At Pew, Russell consolidated the…
paging_filter Spirited Media, which owns and operates the Philadelphia-based local news site Billy Penn, is eyeing Baltimore, Chicago or Pittsburgh as the company’s next news outpost, POLITICO has learned. In an interview with POLITICO conducted before the final cities were selected, Spirited Media founder and CEO Jim Brady said he was looking to launch a…
Video is sexy. Video is lucrative. Video works on both the big screen and the smallest mobile screen. Video is also very hard to do, extremely hard to scale and highly unlikely to be much of a lifeline for VC-addled publishers desperate for growth areas. Mashable, which laid off 30 staffers last week, is the…
(Twitter) There are literal textbooks for online harassment, the original dating back to 1999. These “ruin-life” guides include tactics from doxing and SWATing to placing endangering or annoying ads in online classifieds. As popular as those techniques remain, however, online harassers have learned that they can cause far more damage with a slightly less flashy…
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For the uninitiated CPT is an acronym for colored people time, an old stereotype African-Americans have employed in jest amongst each other to excuse tardiness. Unfortunately, I found out on Monday that the shorthand CPT is no longer just an inside joke, but such a commonplace referral that even Hillary Clinton and New York City Mayor…
Think college is expensive? Try sending your kid to full-time day care or preschool. In nearly half the country, it’s now more expensive to educate a 4-year-old in preschool than an 18-year-old in college, a finding that illustrates the rising burden many families face affording care for children. The annual cost of care for a…
Jack Kirby Doctor Doom is one of the most iconic villains in comic book history, dating back over fifty years, and the subject of countless classic stories by the likes of John Byrne, Jonathan Hickman, and of course Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Created in the pages of Fantastic Four, Victor Von Doom has remained…
AP Radio News:Your browser does not support the audio element. Source: THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL STOP SCREAMING IN ALL CAPS
Coming off her husband’s hard to watch exchange with Black Lives Matters protestors last week, you’d think Hillary Clinton would be extra sensitive to anything that could even potentially paint her as racist right now. Which makes her and Bill de Blasio’s ill-advised joke about “C.P. time” or “colored people time” at a dinner this…