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Philadelphia Newspaper Staffers Weigh Job Buyouts Ahead of Layoffs
By Pat Loeb PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Today was the deadline for employees of Philadelphia’s two major daily newspapers to decide whether to resign in exchange for a buyout payment. The company that owns...
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Philadelphia Papers Moving Forward With Layoffs, 21 Take Buy-Out Offer
By Pat Loeb PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Philadelphia’s newspapers are going ahead with their plan to cut the staff by ten percent. The company told the newspaper guild that 21 people took the buy-out offer by...
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Inquirer’s New Headquarters Won’t Have ‘Daily News’ on the Marquee
By Mike Dunn and Steve Tawa PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The new headquarters of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News — at the old Strawbridge’s building on Market Street — will include a grand, lighted...
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Bleeding Red Ink, Philadelphia Newspapers See Survival In Union Givebacks
By Mike Dunn PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The financial woes of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News, and philly.com are continuing, and management of the parent company says it expects further concessions...
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City Will Look At Increasing Ad Space On Philadelphia Newsstands
By Mike Dunn PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A city councilman wants to expand the amount of advertising that’s allowed on Philadelphia newsstands, with some of the extra revenue going to the city. It was three...
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Delivery Drivers Approve New, Two-Year Deal at Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News
By Steve Tawa PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Teamsters at Philadelphia’s two daily newspapers, the Inquirer and Daily News, have approved a new two-year contract. Teamsters leader John Laigaie says the vote was...
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Newspaper Guild’s New Contract with Inquirer, Daily News Includes Pay Cuts
By Cherri Gregg PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The union that represents reporters and editors at the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and philly.com have approved a new contract with the publications’ owners,...
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Widow of Man Killed By Newsprint Roll Sues Philadelphia Newspaper Company
By Paul Kurtz UPPER MERION, Pa. (CBS) — The widow of a Claymont, Del. man filed suit today against numerous companies, including the former publishers of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, for...
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Norcross Group Offers $29 Million Buyout to Inquirer Minority Shareholders
By Steve Tawa PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Some of the wealthy shareholders involved in slinging lawsuits back and forth in a nasty boardroom quarrel over control of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News...
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Inquirer Owners Continue Wrangling Over Who’s In Charge At Paper
By Steve Tawa PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Lawyers for rival owner factions at the Philadelphia Inquirer were making arguments today in a Philadelphia courtroom on what they say has been “editorial...
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George Norcross Won’t Testify In Inquirer Owners’ Dispute; Trial Resumes
By Steve Tawa PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — There was yet another surprise today in the lawsuit between the warring owners of the Philadelphia Inquirer, as an apparent attempt at achieving a settlement failed...
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George Norcross Increases His Holdings in Inquirer’s Parent Company
By Steve Tawa PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The power structure of the company that owns the Philadelphia Inquirer has not changed since the recent court fight between its owners, but one of those owners has...
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Ruling Awaited by Del. Judge on Format of Inquirer Newspaper Auction
By Steve Tawa WILMINGTON, Del. (CBS) — After hearing days of testimony, a Delaware judge will now decide the format of an auction to sell off the company that owns Philadelphia’s two mass-circulation...
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Auction To Determine Sole Owner of Philadelphia Inquirer Set For Next Week
By Steve Tawa PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The date is set, and the rival co-owners of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News are ready to bid, but there remains a sticking point in the auction to determine...
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Son of Lewis Katz Says He’s Selling His Share of Newspapers to Gerry Lenfest
http://media.philadelphia.cbslocal.com/CBSPHL_20140611123403170AA.mp4 By Steve Tawa PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The newsrooms inside the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News continue to reverberate with yet...
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Lenfest Now Sole Owner of Philadelphia’s Two Daily Newspapers
By Steve Tawa PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Businessman and philanthropist Gerry Lenfest is now the sole owner of the company that publishes the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News. Lenfest says he respects...
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Philadelphia Daily Newspapers Move Closer to Strike
By Dan Wing PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The Newspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia could vote to strike next week if a new contract can’t be reached with the owners of the Inquirer and Daily News before the...
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Jewish Exponent Lays Off Half Its Staff, Will Continue Publishing
By Pat Loeb PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Philadelphia’s Jewish newspaper, the Jewish Exponent, has laid off its entire editorial and production staff, but says it will continue publishing. The Exponent is 128...
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Owners Of Philadelphia’s 2 Biggest Newspapers Plan Dozens Of Layoffs
By Dan Wing PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The owners of The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News have announced plans to lay off nearly 50 members of the news staff. Philadelphia Media Network...
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