What Does Arts Coverage Look Like in Philadelphia?

What exactly gets coverage in the arts section of the region’s largest metropolitan daily newspaper? Nick Gilewicz studied a week’s worth of the Philadelphia Inquirer to see what was covered and where. Click on the map above to see details regarding general arts coverage. The smaller map at right refers to reviews and criticism.

HOWL! Liberty Bell is a bad analogy

Somebody stole the Liberty Bell today

A lot has been written this past week remembering Harry Kalas. The print issue of the Inquirer devoted seven whole pages to Harry the day after his death. And while everyone has memories and anecdotes of Harry to share, some seemed more appropriate than others.

HOOTS and HOWLS for philly.com’s video efforts

For this week’s Hoots and Howls I went on a search for online video news content. I decided to focus my attention on philly.com (The Inquirer and Daily News). Philly.com produces a fairly decent amount of video content, but I focused on those specifically labeled as “news” in order to find what they’re covering and how they are packaging it.

HOOT! To be or not to be…charged as an adult

Teen may face shift to adult status in last year’s subway death

This article is from the Daily News, and was written by Julie Shaw. She writes about one of the defendants in the murder case of Center City Starbucks manager, Sean Patrick Conroy. Kinta Stanton, 17, is one of five young men charged with Conroy’s death, but Stanton was the only defendant to be charged as a juvenile.

HOWLS! House arrest and atheism

• A lawyer evades house arrest.

• A cancer patient does not believe in God.

HOOT! A word about vaccines

Vaccine Brigade a Prime Booster is a great story from Don Sapatkin of the Inquirer. This article is full of information.

It is a great story about a wonderful citywide initiative to vaccinate uninsured or under-insured children in Philadelphia. The best part is the amount of reporting.  The data Sapatkin dug up for this piece brings it to the level of reporting we’ve been discussing in class.

-Brian Donathan

HOWLS! More babies and bad cops, and some docs

• 2 papers report same story badly

• Good-lookin’ doctors are best?

• The Hamels look to adopt.

HOWLS! Deaths, babies and bad cops

• Boy dies at hand of mom’s boyfriend.

• Get over Octomom, Fox!

• Officer misconduct not covered well by DN.