Metro, the free tabloid newspaper, gutted pretty much their entire Philadelphia editorial staff this week

So if Hannah Callowhill Penn was really more instrumental in PA than William — should we change our name?

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DYK Daily News columnist Jenice Armstrong is 6’2″? Also, she sits next to Stu Bykofsky and they’re friends.

On Radio Times this morning, former Mayor Michael Nutter talks Dem presidential candidates and the direction of the party

Mayor Kenney uses a personal cell phone instead of a city-issued one — and deletes all his text messages, taking them out of the public record

Joel Embiid ‘changed’ his nickname for a Hulu ad campaign

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Lenfest is giving grants up to $1,200 for Philly-area journalists and students of color to attend a professional conference

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SEPTA won’t let Reveal News buy bus ads with info about modern-day redlining in Philly — it says the message is ‘too political’

A call for writing workshops in Mt. Airy

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CNN is dropping former Mayor Michael Nutter as a contributor

Say hello to Harrisburg’s new go-to news site, the Pennsylvania Capital-Star

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Neighborhoods

On the radio in Germantown: A ‘twisted love letter’ to the neighborhood

The 8-episode season will cover the ongoing "struggle for equality" in the Northwest Philly community.

Sixers to honor announcer Marc Zumoff for 25 years as team broadcaster

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The documentary about The Inquirer’s glory days is almost ready

Why you should care about what happened to the city's biggest newsroom decades ago.

A new Philly-based podcast explores Black culture, dating, sexuality and politics in the city

Jeopardy’s ‘Clues Across Philadelphia”‘ featured 6ABC newscasters reading answers from Reading Terminal, Franklin Fountain, The Barnes and more

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Rich Donnelly, CEO of Newspaper Media Group (Northeast Times, South Philly Review, many others), has died at 61

Farewell, Vernon Odom: Watch clips from the newsman’s four decades at Channel 6

The longtime broadcaster retired this week after 42 years on air.

Philly Weekly, the city’s last alternative newspaper, has a new owner

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The full GQ piece calling Philadelphia the ‘city of the year’ is now online