The Philly Watch: Labor, Skills and the Digital Future

Philly's next re-do -- maybe it will catch the recovery wind at its back this time -- won't happen in isolation. Down the road, in D.C., it'll be able to watch Allbritton's TBD start-up experiment, beginning in June. The first lesson: Figuring out how to serve substantial top-flight journalism ...

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The Problem with CNN: Conventional News Network

CNN’s ratings slides is beginning to look like daily newspaper’s long circ slide.  The hot cable media — Fox, especially, and less so, MSNBC as well as CNN’s own HLN, with its screaming, tabloidy, violence-centered coverage — all are beating it, and ever more ...

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