Ross Maghielse

In this probing piece, @polgreen.bsky.social makes an argument about the state of the news industry that I haven’t seen before. Essentially, that the decline in public trust coincided with journalism getting better.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/o...

Washington Post names new CEO as Will Lewis exits Jeff D'Onofrio was named acting CEO and publisher. He joined the Post in 2025 as CFO.

Had to happen. Bizarre end to what’s got to be the most incompetent display of theoretical leadership at a news organization since, I don’t know, the Tronc era. www.axios.com/2026/02/07/w...

Philly federal judges are growing frustrated with ICE policy to detain most undocumented immigrants ICE “continues to act contrary to law, to spend taxpayer money needlessly, and to waste the scarce resources of the judiciary," one judge wrote.

You heard about the prosecutor defending ICE who broke in court said “the system sucks. This job sucks.”

She isn’t the only one frustrated.

Philly’s federal judges are reaching to Greek mythology metaphors to express their frustration.

🧵 www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

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Jury finds D.C. ‘sandwich guy’ not guilty of assaulting officer Sean C. Dunn admitted he flung the hoagie at a federal agent. His attorneys called it a “harmless gesture” of protest as Trump commandeered D.C. police.

This is the most Philadelphia Washington has ever been. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Election 2025 live updates: Philly DA, N.J. governor on the ballot; voting issues in Chester County for independents Voters will also decide the makeup of Pennsylvania's Supreme Court Tuesday.

The Philadelphia Inquirer ( @inquirer.com ) has more than 50 journalists dedicated to election coverage today — and into tomorrow — as voters decide the next governor of New Jersey, the state of the PA Supreme Court, the Philly District Attorney and more. share.inquirer.com/qbHwn9

The Mets lost that day. Which makes sense, because as Jimmy Rollins said: “We couldn’t get them on the home side, because we knew what they did.”

@inquirer.com wrote about those infamous steaks, said to be among the best in the city, earlier this summer. www.inquirer.com/food/phillie...

The latest edition of @willbunch.bsky.social’s newsletter kicks off with this doozy of a thought: share.inquirer.com/u3rb2T

Journalism needs a rebrand It’s time for journalism to stop overselling its importance and underselling its value.

I recently finished a capstone project as part of a @newmarkjplus.bsky.social executive fellowship and landed on a humbling realization: journalism is an industry that thinks more highly of itself than anyone else does of it.

I think that’s our fault — and fixable. medium.com/news-innovat...

Journalism needs a rebrand It’s time for journalism to stop overselling its importance and underselling its value.

I recently finished a capstone project as part of a @newmarkjplus.bsky.social executive fellowship and landed on a humbling realization: journalism is an industry that thinks more highly of itself than anyone else does of it.

I think that’s our fault — and fixable. medium.com/news-innovat...

The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine | CNN Business If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good it’s going to ruin the global economy, you’d be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached...

This is good. I’m not sure to what extent I agree with it, but more could be said about the arrogance-feigning-as-humility speak that comes from the tech titans so regularly. www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/b...

College newspapers grapple with requests to delete old articles as students and alumni fear deportation The detainments of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia student, and Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts student, led to a surge of requests to take down or alter student articles. Here's how Philly-area

“Student newspaper editors said they are handling a surge of requests to take down or alter published articles, primarily from international students who fear pieces they wrote might attract the attention of ICE and endanger their legal statuses on campus.” www.inquirer.com/education/st...

Exactly. “Good enough” is a total failure if that’s the most widespread outcome of a transformational technology.

Shopify Says No New Hires Unless AI Can’t Do the Job The e-commerce company’s CEO is requiring employees to integrate artificial intelligence into teamwork.

This is the type of nonsense that will hinder AI integration and limit its effectiveness. Companies should use AI to challenge the boundaries of what’s possible and explore how much more can be done, not to establish a floor of acceptable mediocrity. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/shop...

One lesson from this story: how honest, consistent, and careful with national security the best reporters are compared to the people who always attack them.

I fear for the 2026 World Cup under Trump | Will Bunch Newsletter Plus, Dems needs to act like GOP on Yemen chat scandal

For most of my adult life, I've been eagerly awaiting the U.S. return of soccer's World Cup. But under Trump, the very real risk of tourists staying home to avoid airport hassles or even arrest, as well as America's global pariah status, may ruin it

My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

More than 425 popular campsites across Pa. are closed indefinitely due to DOGE cuts Reservations made at impacted sites on Raystown Lake, Seven Points, Susquehannock, Nancy’s Boat-to-Shore Campgrounds, Tompkins Campground on Tioga-Hammond and Cowanesque Lakes will be refunded.

The chainsaw of government efficiency now includes indefinite closures of 425 popular campgrounds across Pennsylvania (and surely elsewhere) share.inquirer.com/koS50W

Philly has identified a measles case in a CHOP patient Health officials said that the case is not connected to another measles case in Montgomery County, nor to a widespread outbreak in West Texas.

A measles case has been identified in a patient who visited several CHOP locations in Philadelphia over the last few days. Here's what to know about the case -- which is not linked to the Montco case identified a few weeks ago or the West Texas outbreak: www.inquirer.com/health/measl...

To New York ...

With love 💚,
Philadelphia

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On Tuesday afternoon, Eloise Brown got a call from Eagles team president, Don Smolenski.

“I’m calling from New Orleans,” Smolenski said. “I have a question to ask you. Would you like to come and join us and watch us on Sunday?” (1/4) www.inquirer.com/eagles/elois...

On the lookout outside the @inquirer.com newsroom.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (@inquirer.com) has several other job openings:

Coverage Editor, Inquirer Weekend: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

4 weekend reporters: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

Health Reporter: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

Interactive Dev www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

The Washington Post’s New Mission: Reach ‘All of America’ (Gift Article) This week, The Post began trying out a new mission statement: “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.”

Why am I weirdly here for this acronym?

“The Post, in April, laid out big-picture goals for the company. Among them: reach 200 million paying users, which the slide deck described as a ‘Big Hairy Audacious Goal,’ or ‘B.H.A.G.’”
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b...

Nope!

Sorry about this. Print delivery is a little outside my scope, but we do know we’ve had some issues with this and have been working to improve them. If you want to shoot me an email I’ll do my best to connect you with customer service and see if we can get better results.

rmaghielse@inquirer.com

Hey Jim, first off, thanks for subscribing. I’d be happy to hear you out on this more and either address or pass along your feedback.

rmaghielse@inquirer.com

The Philadelphia Inquirer is hiring a team of people who will develop a distinct digital weekend edition of @inquirer.com that further engages our subscribers and broadens the audience for our journalism. This is not about just keeping the lights on. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

Meta — and Zuckerberg personally — spent hundreds of millions, probably a billion-plus — on things that would be considered “pro democracy.” It bought him and the company zero goodwill, from anyone. Journalists accused him of killing journalism & politicians accused him of killing people 🤷‍♂️

It’s perplexing that this would be framed as some sort of genuine milestone. therighting.com/traffic-repo...

I wish Hunter S. Thompson had lived to see this