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What is it with Pennsylvania on AdFreak today?
In being the leader of a consortium that today bought the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, Brian Tierney has just become a rarity—an ad exec (or former one), who is openly and publicly embracing the future of old media—and print, no less. True, the newspapers’ Web sites are part of the $562 million buyout of the papers from McClatchy, but ultimately this deal is really about whether there are still people interested in reading newspapers, and well-heeled patrons willing to buy them once a publicly-traded conglomerate puts them on the block.
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