Mayor Michael Nutter came into office a year ago promising open, accessible, responsible government after eight years of pay-to-play cronyism under John Street. How's he doing so far? The Pew Charitable Trusts wanted to know, so it commissioned a poll whose results were reported in The Philadelphia Inquirer Feb.
Philadelphia Newspapers, LLC, owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Feb. 22 in hopes of dealing with $390 million in debt. As members of the City's media, this came as a rather unsettling wake-up call to us. Businesses across the board are facing challenges due to the current economic crisis, but sometimes it is easy to forget that news media is an industry like any other, and not impervious to hardship.
