Area Newspapers Get New Life, Owner He Had Pleaded Guilty to Media to Child-Pornography Charges
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Porn And, possibly by now, they nev- The litigation provided page one er will to any extent. news, plus gossip column items. The duos have been part of a se- Lane eventually moved to Los Jim Friedlich Photo- ries of lawsuits, going back to 2008. Angeles. The main Lawsuit was Lane vs CBS. Mendte moved to hosting a talk NEWS: The case has been set- radio show on iHeart Media radio in Internet Pro grapher Alycia Lane tled out-of-court, and it’s over! Delaware. A photographer who took explicit pictures of children as Hired to a volunteer for WXPN’s “Kid’s Corner” radio show was sen- Direct Local tenced to jail recently. Area Newspapers Get New Life, Owner He had pleaded guilty to Media to child-pornography charges. Well, there’s at least one ing areas “Star” weekly. Voice in New York and Broad Mark Williams, 50, admitted publisher in the Philadelphia In all, Donnelly now owns Street Media. Profitability to a federal judge that his vic- area, who believes that newspa- 22 publications. • Bob Jacobs former publisher tims were girls 3 to 10 years old. pers have a future. He has said, “… We’re fo- of The Guide in Philadelphia. A former consultant for the The judge sentenced him to He is Richard Donnelly, cusing on the small towns that • John Gallo, longtime chief owner of the Inquirer, Daily News federal prison for 15 years. president of Donnelly Distribu- don’t get much coverage.” operating officer of South & Philly.com has been named di- The photos were taken over tion, Pennsauken, NJ. Delegated to lead manage- Philly Review. rector of those major media out- a five year period, 2010 to 2015. Recently, he acquired a ment of the publications are: • Don Russell is the groups lets, known as the Institute for His subjects were attend- number of area newspapers and • Perry Corsetti, publisher. He editor-in-chief. He is known to Journalism in New Media. ing WXPN sponsored events at magazines. is former publisher of Broad newspaper readers as beer His priority goal is to find ways the Camden Children’s Garden, They include: Street Media, as well as hav- reporter Joe Sixpack. Russell for traditional news companies to Morris Arboretum & the Franklin … Nine South Jersey, and a ing had advertising & finance previously served as a report- compete financially with the grow- Institute. Princeton, NJ publication. positions at the Philadelphia er, editor and columnist at the ing free online news outlets. … Philadelphia Weekly Inquirer. Philadelphia Daily News. He is Jim Friedlich, 59, for- …South Philadelphia Review • Brandon Chamberlain, general About 900,000 Delaware Val- mer Wall Street Journal busi- … Northeast Times manager, he has held advertis- ley Homes receive weekly adver- ness executive. …Other neighborhood week- ing management, production tising circulars distributed by Don- His experience includes a lies, like the Kensington & adjoin- and IT positions at The Village nelly Distribution, the firm reports. former long consultation assign- ment at the Dallas Morning News where he helped reorganize how a newspaper could gather and Controversial Sign Gone at Geno’s Steaks provide news especially to an Well, it is communications … It was taken down this October, “quietly”, the expanding online readership. And, some would think it’s marketing to se- Inquirer reported. There reporters were as- lected audiences. Vento originally said the message was “a po- signed as team members to con- The reference is to the sign – now the former litical statement”. centrate on specific topics. controversial sign! – outside the well-known Ge- He was criticized, but he also said he wel- His earlier stint here at Phil- no’s Steaks, 1219 S. 9th St., Phila. (215-389-0659). comed the attention it got, and, “… made me fa- adelphia Media Network, owner It reads, well, it formerly read! mous throughout the world.” of the Inquirer, Daily News & “This is America. When Ordering Speak English”. Vento’s son, Geno Vento, succeeded his fa- Philly.com covered a nine month It had been displayed in the window of the ther as owner of Geno’s Steaks. period. He was selected for his restaurant, which was founded in 1966, by Joe He commented on the removal, saying “… new position in Philadelphia over Vento, who died in 2011. It’s time to move on…” 100 other applicants. 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It’s been a really bad year that he did have. Not that they that out long before the rest of us. says Matthew Wilson, a profes- for “experts”. had much, if any, impact. In fact, according to a re- sor of political science at South- You can pretty much expand How does this happen? How cent article by Peter Grier, in the ern Methodist University, in an that to include consultants, spe- do you round up all the consultants Christian Science Monitor, Trump email on the subject. cialists of practically any kind, and experts and execute them first? is just the latest in a long line. ‘It clearly resonates with his advisors, senior professionals “[Trump is] perhaps reflec- base and may reach beyond that. The World of Communication and savvy insiders. tive of a decades-long slide in “People are pretty fed up In fact, it hasn’t been a great Will Never, Ever Be the Same trust in traditional US institutions, with ‘experts’ these days.’” century, dating back to the Y2K In the election cycle of 2016 which hit new lows in the Great If nothing else, maybe the insanity. In case you forgot, Y2K we are witnessing the ultimate Recession and its aftermath. It Trump phenomena has some- came and went and all the com- elimination of the middle-man. also echoes populist strains from thing to teach us. If the product puters on earth did not blow up, Who needs to buy advertis- the 19th century. we are marketing isn’t working, all the clocks did not stop running; ing time on TV when you are cer- Mike Mallowe “‘He’s going full-bore anti- then it might be time to invent a and the Internet barely blinked. tain to get it for free? intellectual, and it might work,’ better product. The experts predicted world- Who needs a national politi- product to sell? And, when that wide destruction and chaos. But cal party to get out the vote when product becomes superfluous the last time we looked, all that many of your supporters have or irrelevant, where do all these destruction and chaos was most- never even been registered to communicators have to go? ly self-inflicted. vote before? RTF Communications Regardless of the outcome Who needs to explain poli- The Earth Has Moved and It’s of the 2016 Presidential election cies and programs when the peo- Been a Long Time Coming – or any election you can name ple voting for you are lucky they Journalists should be used Writing Services – everybody in the world believed can read the writing on your hat? to this by now. that you could not hope to run and Finally, who needs to be any- First they saw their print For Businesses compete successfully, unless you thing more than yourself, along with publications disappear.