NEW AC: GUARDIAN STUNS LANGFORD NEW AC SENATE PRESIDENT + STEVE SWEENEY An All New Website IRON MAN www.Boardwalkjournal.com fIGHTING FOR SOUTH JERSEY BY: JAMES J. LEONARD JR., ESQ. We've Got The Jersey Shore Covered November 2013 • www.BoardwalkJournal.com • ISSUE 55 NO LONGER 60 MILES APART Enter a newly formed content sharing partnership between The Boardwalk Journal and philly.com, the A UNIQUE PARTNERSHIP region’s undisputed dominant web source which boasts several million unique web visitors each month. The date was December 31, 2012 and I was in the check-out line at the supermarket picking up last minute items for the small New Year’s Eve party my wife and I have every year at our home, Beginning this month, select content from The Boardwalk Journal will be featured on philly.com, and a where we light a fire, sit on the couch in our pajamas, eat homemade pizza and listen to our two variety of original philly.com content will be reversed published and printed in The Boardwalk Journal, young children tell us how this year they are going to stay awake long enough to see the ball as well as www.boardwalkjournal.com. drop. “philly.com is the ultimate destination I will also have the privilege of being one of philly.com’s “Voices”, that will consist of me writing for sports coverage in our region. We They never do. and maintaining a blog that will be featured on philly.com and encompass all things Atlantic are excited to be partnering with City. So as I began checking out, I found myself perusing the magazine covers as the cashier scanned Boardwalk Journal in bringing the best my items. My first blog entry forphilly.com , will feature a detailed interview with AC Mayor Elect Don of Philadelphia’s major teams to Atlantic Guardian and a detailed analysis of how and why he won. City through the most original sports And there it was; a magazine cover that caused me to gasp audibly that had absolutely nothing content and commentary that can only to do with anyone named Kardashian. The Boardwalk Journal The idea is to introduce and expand the reach of into Philadelphia and to be found on philly.com, home to the most strengthen the existing reach of the regional digital juggernaut that is philly.com deeper into It was the cover of Newsweek that featured an old black and white ariel shot of what was Atlantic City and beyond. dedicated sports fan.” formerly known as the Newsweek Building, with the name of the iconic magazine projected over the New York City skyline from atop the building. I would like to acknowledge the very talented Lexie Norcross, without whom this partnership Matt Romanoski would not be taking place, as well as the philly.com editorial leadership team, specifically, Leah Executive Producer, Sports It wasn’t the picture that caught my attention; it was the words under it: R. Kauffman, Matt Romanoski , Robert McGovern and everyone else at philly.com, who I very philly.com much look forward to working with. #LASTPRINTISSUE Lastly, the photograph at the bottom of this page was taken of me on November 9th, while I To someone like me, the Publisher of a small, regional magazine, this was apocalyptic. was filming an Atlantic City themed segment for 60 Minutes / CBS News that is expected to air “The idea of sharing the very best philly. sometime in the spring of 2014. com features with Atlantic City, which If Newsweek, an iconic American institution that pumped out a weekly news magazine every always highlights the top restaurants, week dating back to 1933 couldn’t stay in print, what did that mean for the future of The Boardwalk I have to say, I was both honored and humbled after being asked to sit down for an interview Journal? with 60 Minutes, a bucket list item I truly thought was unachievable, with me being an Atlantic nightlife and shopping destinations City attorney as opposed to a head of state or a purveyor of some global entity such as Facebook that Philadelphia has to offer, will I didn’t have a building in New York with my name on it or news bureaus in places like London, or Google. make for a terrific experience for the Baghdad, Tokyo or Beijing, I had an office on top of a pizza-shop in Atlantic City of all places. Boardwalk Journal reader. Lifestyle That being said, the interview did not afford me the luxury of eliminating another bucket list and Entertainment topics are some of To say I felt that our days may be numbered is an understatement. item, that being the ability to correspond with my favorite correspondent, Lara Logan. the most popular features on philly.com In retrospect, it wasn’t so much the words as it was that hash tag and what it seemed to represent Maybe next time … and we have some great themes and that made me gasp out loud, it was the confirmation that the future of journalism was trending columnists to offer Boardwalk Journal digital. that further define our unique coverage.” Newsweek saw it coming; in 2010 they merged with The Daily Beast, an online news site that Leah Kauffmann had only been launched two years prior in 2008. Executive Producer, Lifestyle and Entertainment By August 31, 2012, just four months prior to #LASTPRINTISSUE, Mediabistro.com reported James J. Leonard, JR., ESQ. September 2013 that the digital partnership of Newsweek / The Daily Beast had more than 15,000,000 unique President / CEO visitors to its news web site and upwards of 118,000,000 page views in the month of August Founder and Publisher of The Boardwalk Journal alone. “Politics is just one of many news topics The Boardwalk Journal Refusing to abandon the printed edition of , I immediately set out to enhance that I know will be of particular interest both the visibility and the quality of our digital presentation by frantically calling my trusted consigliere Ken Warren on January 1, 2013 and telling him about #LASTPRINTISSUE. to Atlantic City when they find philly.com’s latest news analysis and Ken immediately began to re-configure and re-design all of our social media platforms as reports in the pages of Boardwalk well as www.boardwalkjournal.com, creating both a free digital subscription and an easily Journal. We are proud that our Voices A Look Back At The Epic Battle For Atlantic City between Donald Trump & Steve Wynn downloadable app, complete with a BWJ icon for subscribers. T THE SHORE’ AUTHOR of philly.com will also soon provide the A LOOK AHEAD AT THE FUTURE OFRICHARD INTERNET “SKIP” GAMBLING BRONSON WITH ‘WAR A Our digital subscribers went from 0 to more than 12,000 in a few short months. Boardwalk Journal some of the most outstanding and provocative commentary Did I mention that we built our own app that you can have on your IPhone or IPad? in our region on a wide range of timely news stories and issues of the day.” Go to www.boardwalkjournal.com and download it, it’s free, as is a digital subscription to the magazine and access to all of our digital content. Bob McGovern Executive Producer, News And as we prepare to enter 2014, more changes are coming to both our print and digital philly.com Est. 2009 presentations, as we embark on a path forward that now includes expanding the reach of The Boardwalk Journal beyond the confines of Atlantic City and the Jersey Shore. James J. Leonard Jr., Esq. on the set of 60 Minutes The incomparable Lara Logan 4 | The Boardwalk Journal | November 2013 The Boardwalk Journal | November 2013 | 5 table of contents VOL. 5 ISSUE 11 • November 2013 CHANGE in this issue... YOUR LIFE... 4 A UNIQUE PARTNERSHIP 10 GUARDIAN STUNS LANGFORD JOIN TODAY! 13 THE RAW FEED 16 MCBA INSTALLATION AWARDS 20 DINA MANZO Rebecca Leonard 24 THE CHRISTIE CHRONICLES Matt Katz 26 fitness for the fun of it, finding Your inspiration Julianne Dods 27 time for food rules Nancy Adler 28 GOVernor chris christie: NEXT stop 1600 pennsYLVania? Harry Hurley 30 LIFE AT THE SHORE Lloyd D. Levenson, Esq. 34 MEETING STEVE SWEENEY James J. 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