Can Spirited Media create the ‘BuzzFeed of local news?’ A new merger aspires to do just that
The company that launched Billy Penn in Philadelphia and The Incline in Pittsburgh is merging…
March 8, 2017
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Heavy-hitter investors plan a for-profit digital launch next month in Denver
The growing wave of local digital news startups is about to get a new player.…
May 25, 2016
Next stop for Billy Penn founder: Pittsburgh
Can the Steel City support another news organization? We're about to find out. Jim Brady,…
May 9, 2016
The next destination for Jim Brady’s local news experiment: Baltimore, Chicago or Pittsburgh
Jim Brady, the media entrepreneur behind Philadelphia startup Billy Penn, has his sights set on…
April 11, 2016
Can the Billy Penn model for local news work beyond Philadelphia? We’re about to find out.
Jim Brady, the man behind Billy Penn, began the Philadelphia news startup with the ambition…
March 22, 2016
Billy Penn and Knight Foundation want to build ‘Yelp for mobile news’
Jim Brady doesn't think the press can afford to keep trade secrets anymore. In the…
December 10, 2015
Billy Penn has doubled its traffic since May
Medium After local news startup Billy Penn launched in October, its founder articulated a principle…
July 14, 2015
Don’t chase stories everyone else is chasing and other lessons from LION’s conference
During the weekend, members of Local Independent Online News Publishers met in Philadelphia for a…
June 8, 2015
This week on Medium: 6 media stories you may have missed
Links shared in Poynter's internal Slack channel are quite frequently from Medium and almost always…
May 22, 2015
Career Beat: Marilyn Thompson will be deputy editor at Politico
Good morning! Here are some career updates from the journalism community: Leon Wieseltier will be…
January 6, 2015
Tuesday night, Billy Penn covered the election in a pop-up newsroom
Billy Penn's pop-up newsroom. This photo is courtesy of Billy Penn. On Tuesday night, about…
November 5, 2014
Billy Penn launches desktop, mobile sites
Billy Penn Jim Brady's new local-news startup, Billy Penn, launched Wednesday, carrying a note saying…
October 22, 2014
Billy Penn editor: Site ‘crossed that line’ with flip treatment of rape charge
In its newsletter Monday, the yet-to-launch Philadelphia news site Billy Penn wrote about a local…
September 22, 2014
Yet another NYT digital tier?
Good morning. Here are 10 media stories. Another NYT subscription tier? Lucia Moses reports: "According…
August 7, 2014