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Winter on Independence Mall
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Drifting snow twirls around pedestrians passing Independence Mall on Market Street in Philadelphia this morning.
Idiot Village: Philadelphia city officials take down Christmas, sort of
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Politically Correct Village
In a feeble attempt to please everybody, Philadelphia city officials responded to complaints from some city workers and other citizens by ordering the removal of the word “Christmas” from the Christmas Village signs at Philadelphia City Hall, where they are still hosting the Christmas Village you can find at, well, http://www.philachristmas.com/
They plan to replace it with a “Holiday Village” sign, but apparently not at the same time, and so for now it just says “Village.”
Oh, holiday tree.
Meanwhile, in the middle of the village, city workers continued to string Christmas lights on a Christmas tree, as “Oh, Christmas Tree” and other Christmas carols continued to play on the audio system.
Read more:
Village will be open through Holiday Eve.
UPDATE: CRISIS AVERTED; MAYOR SAVES CHRISTMAS:
Nutter says market will get its name back
Meet the PhIJI.org journalism innovation community at Temple University
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Feather O. Houstoun, president of the William Penn Foundation, greets new Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com publisher Greg Osberg after his PhIJI.org presentation at Temple University Tuesday night. Thomas Jacobson, Dean of the School of Communications and Theater at Temple, looks on. iPhone photo by Jim MacMillan
I spend most of my time now teaching graduate journalism courses at NYU and advising students at War News Radio at Swarthmore, but when the sun goes down, I also become the program coordinator for the Philadelphia Initiative for Journalistic Innovation, a program of the Department of Journalism at Temple University.
Last night Greg Osberg, new publisher and CEO of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com, came to visit us at PhIJI.
Osberg announced plans to collaborate with journalism schools, new content sharing objectives, a Philly media incubator that will house startups free of charge in the newspaper building, and a journalism innovation competition with cash rewards for employees.
The William Penn Foundation has previously announced a collaborative journalism initiative that will aim to develop strategies to advance public interest journalism in the greater Philadelphia area. This project is meant to be the next step in creating networks for journalists and developing resourcing strategies and innovations in creating a networked community around public affairs issues.
Check in for more news from this and future events at http://phiji.org/
PhIJI is free and open to the public.
Bus stop, Nogales
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Travelers waiting at a bus stop face the U.S. border wall in Nogales, Mexico on Saturday. The white crosses commemorate those who have died crossing the border.
My usual tweet blog is still on hold while I try to catch up on business that piled up while I was in Mexico. Come back soon.
On Mexico time
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Nogales, AZ; seen through a hole in the U.S. border fence from Nogales, Mexico, 2010.
I’m back on the east coast but not sure when I will catch up with my tweet digest again. I just spent a few days going back and forth along the border between Arizona and Mexico with students from the U of A and NYU – and generally having a great time – but now a few other tasks have piled up. Stay tuned.
