The press is the “chief democratic instrument of freedom,” Alexis de Tocqueville once observed. The United States Constitution goes further: […]
Thom Nickels: The Associated Press gone fully Orwellian
There was no AP Style book when I was in journalism school, but there was an AP satellite office next […]
John Rossi: Four Quarters and me
One of the pleasures of my fifty plus years teaching at La Salle College, then University, was the school’s literary […]
Thom Nickels: The new journalism? Two can play at that game.
There aren’t that many daring “street activist” conservatives in Philadelphia who’ve adopted an in-your-face style that’s decidedly leftist in its […]
Jeff Cole: Covering Shapiro
Josh Shapiro bounds across the stage at a Philadelphia community center sporting the costume of a careful, calculating politician on […]
Seth Higgins: An assault on a SEPTA Bus — and what it reveals about modern politics
Gen Z is the first generation to develop a native slang entirely at ease with our internet saturated culture. For […]
Jon Delano: The demise of the Post-Gazette
The fall of a great American newspaper will be felt across the region.
By Jon Delano
Jeff Cole: Names will never hurt
A widely respected, even beloved colleague stands in the glare of klieg lights delivering her live report with Philadelphia’s City […]
Thom Nickels: John Guinther, the Philadelphia journalist who took on a DA and won
Guinther’s investigation of the Ferber case won him a Pulitzer Prize nomination.
By Thom Nickels