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Spirited Media is seeking buyers for Billy Penn in Philadelphia and TheIncline in Pittsburgh, local news sites employing about five staffers at each location. Spirited Media also announced on Monday that it sold the Denverite to Colorado Public Radio. Terms were not disclosed. RELATED STORIES Cost-slashing hedge fund that owns Philly-area newspapers makes run at Courier-Post, News Journal and…
A journalism professor at a public university in Philadelphia has admitted to making some of the posts attributed to an anonymous account that spread baseless conspiracy theories and maligned Muslims on far-right sites, according to the school. Francesca Viola, who teaches journalism at Temple University, was identified on Twitter by Joshua Benton, the director of Harvard’s…
googleon: all A Temple University journalism professor has been publicly outed as the user behind an anonymous account linked to conspiracy-theory comments on news websites, and is criticizing the site that identified her. line 459 Francesca Viola, a former reporter for WPHL (Channel 17) and WTXF (Fox 29), was named on Twitter over a comment made on the…
Sarmad Assali’s relatives, who are all Orthodox Christians, had visas and proof of green cards, the family said By David Chang, Alicia Victoria Lozano and Gabe Gutierrez endclickprintinclude loadInlineNwsModule | $loadInlineNwsModule nwsLetterEmbedded | $nwsLetterEmbedded nwsModuleAttached | false NEWSLETTERS Receive the latest local updates in your inbox startclickprintincludeProtests against President Donald Trump’s immigration ban continued…
Chris Krewson / Billy Penn 23 signs and scenes from Philly’s lunchtime anti-Trump rally “Trust the protest,” Standing Rock support and someone dressed up as Kellyanne Conway By Chris Krewson and Chris Montgomery By Chris Krewson and Chris Montgomery January 26, 2017 at 1:31 pm share Philadelphians began protesting as early as 24 hours before…
googleon: all President Trump spoke to Republicans attending the GOP retreat in Philadelphia, hitting on familiar themes from his campaign, including helping American workers, ending illegal immigration and rebuilding the country’s military. Thousands of people protested in the streets surrounding the Center City hotel as Trump spoke. 2:18 p.m.: President Trump claimed in…
Emily Youcis, better known as “Pistachio Girl” at Philadelphia Phillies games, has been fired from her vendor job by Aramark, because she couldn’t stop supporting white nationalism online. Pistachio Girl was known for her distinct singing as she hawked concessions, even after the park stopped selling pistachios: The 26-year-old Youcis talked about her firing in…
The Perks Are Great. Just Don’t Ask Us What We Do. 50onRed is a fixture in Philly’s tech scene. But there’s something the leadership didn’t talk about, even with some of its own staff. The company seemed like the perfect place for Tyler. After working in the agency world, Tyler (not his real name) wanted…
The pipeline started at baptism and ended at college graduation. Catholic kids in Philly went to Catholic grade school and Catholic high school and, if they weren’t a star athlete or headed to the Ivy League caliber student, probably Saint Joseph’s, La Salle, Villanova or maybe one of the smaller Catholic colleges in the area,…
Only NBC10’s Randy Gyllenhaal spoke with two Philadelphia men who were delayed from boarding a flight home from Chicago after they say another passenger complained about them speaking Arabic. (Published Friday, Nov. 20, 2015) A Philadelphia pizza shop owner and his friend had to call 911 in Chicago’s Midway airport Wednesday night in order to…