Ralph Cipriano, Author at New Jersey Globe

Inkygate: The former prosecutor at the center of the Nancy Phillips case

August 21, 2026 4:36 pm

In the enduring mystery over how ten pages of typewritten notes from Philadelphia Inquirer editor Nancy Phillips wound up with the New Jersey state attorney general, one name keeps popping up. That’s Edwin Stier, a former New Jersey state and...

Inkygate: Dear Mr. Escobar, you’re about to be sued for defamation

July 21, 2026 9:12 am

Last Friday, at the offices of The Philadelphia Inquirer, at 100 S Independence Mall W., Gabriel Escobar was going about his normal duties as editor and senior vice president. Just the day before, the Inquirer had published a story written...

Inkygate: Clown show at the Inquirer gets serious

July 20, 2026 1:01 pm

When we last left the crack journalists at The Philadelphia Inquirer, they were still trying to determine how ten pages of typewritten notes written by editor Nancy Phillips somehow ended up with the N.J. state attorney general. “We do not...

Cipriano: My response to Gabe Escobar

July 16, 2026 10:00 amJuly 16, 2026 11:20 am

I wrote a story yesterday about a mystery. A mystery about ten pages of gossipy typewritten notes written by a Philadelphia Inquirer editor about South Jersey political boss George Norcross. And how those notes wound up in the hands of...

Mystery: how an Inquirer editor’s notes about George Norcross wound up with the N.J. state Attorney General

July 15, 2026 1:54 pmJuly 15, 2026 10:52 pm

On Aug. 4, 2019, an editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer sat down for a long, gossipy interview with Susan Bass Levin, the former mayor of Cherry Hill, N.J. During a conversation that would spill over into the next day, Bass...