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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: Norcross hires an attorney who has sued Philadelphia Inquirer before

July 20, 2026 7:12 pm

South Jersey Democratic powerbroker George E. Norcross III is preparing for a potential defamation lawsuit against the Philadelphia Inquirer over the rapidly escalating Inkygate scandal involving confidential interview notes from one of the newspaper’s editors that reached the New Jersey...

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...

Inkygate: Philadelphia Inquirer acknowledges editor’s notes reached N.J. prosecutors, but key questions remain unanswered

July 17, 2026 10:20 amJuly 17, 2026 6:29 pm

The Philadelphia Inquirer found itself reporting on its own newsroom Thursday, publicly acknowledging that confidential interview notes prepared by one of its senior editors somehow wound up in the hands of the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office during the investigation...

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...

Judge rejects most of New Brunswick school board’s bid to block publication of surveillance video

July 10, 2026 1:59 pmJuly 12, 2026 6:45 pm

A Superior Court judge has rejected most of the New Brunswick Board of Education’s attempt to prevent New Brunswick Today from publishing surveillance video of a student bringing a weapon into New Brunswick High School, ruling that the news outlet...