Craig LaBan

The hungriest, thirstiest, crumb-trackin' man in Philly. Restaurant critic & Drink columnist for The Inquirer. Sign up for my new Taste Philly newsletter!

[DiscoverLancaster PR @DiscoverLancPR]

Thx for visiting Lancaster from time to time, @CraigLaBan, and reporting back to your readers on the continuing delicious developments here! https://t.co/bhJvjCj7aC

[Craig LaBan @CraigLaBan]

This walking tour tribute to Hercules Posey, one of Philly’s first great chefs, should be very worthwhile.

[Faye Anderson @andersonatlarge]

.@fallonroth_ I want to share the link to my May 16th walking tour of people, places and events in Hercules Posey’s Philadelphia. I hope you will be able to join us.

@CraigLaBan

https://t.co/w1WkRPg6Qd

[Katie Robertson @katie_robertson]

NEW: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will continue publishing! It has been acquired by the nonprofit Venetoulis Institute, which runs the Baltimore Banner. My story here: https://t.co/VsTFjeNqNs

[bea @beaformanwrites]

Philly has 7 finalists for James Beard awards, which will be announced June 15 in Chicago.

First time noms include Evan Snyder of Emmett, Justine MacNeil of Fiore, and Amanda Shulman of the Michelin-starred Her Place.

full deets @PhillyInquirer

https://t.co/bQjwX80GrO

[Alan Bass @AlanBassWriting]

This front pager from @CraigLaBan on Jesse and Matt Ito is one of the most beautiful pieces of writing I’ve seen in a long time. Highly recommend to everyone in the Philly region!

[Craig LaBan @CraigLaBan]

@AlanBassWriting Thanks so much for reading - and also for sharing !

[Craig LaBan @CraigLaBan]

@andersonatlarge @MountVernon @PHMC Absolutely. Email me: [email protected]

[𝙵𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚝 𝙿𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 𝚃𝚘𝚍𝚊𝚢 📰 @ukpapers]

🇺🇸 Jesse And Matt Ito's Big Japan Adventure

▫The father-son trip to the elder's home village was never a sure thing
▫@CraigLaBan
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#frontpagestoday #USA @PhillyInquirer

[Alison Cook @alisoncook]

Cogent and yes, "heartbreaking" words on the difference between 'readers' and 'consumers.' Media's obsession with metrics = death by a million clicks.

[Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @Amy_Siskind]

This piece by Peggy Noonan on the demise of the Washington Post is worth your time. I gifted it so you can read it.
“Finally, losing the one major newspaper left in the great nation’s capital—and during the Trump administration no less, during a time of the easy abuse of standards and traditions, of inching up to and then inching over the law, in a pattern that promises not to get better but worse—is more than a Jeffersonian nightmare, it is a kind of sin. The kind history doesn’t easily forgive.”

https://t.co/Pb29SIZAIq

[Lydia DePillis @lydiadepillis]

The value destruction going on at the Washington Post today is beyond comprehension. These people trained their entire lives to be the best in the profession and an arrogant, clueless management team has just chosen to incinerate their contributions to the world and the business.

[Craig LaBan @CraigLaBan]

Insane

[(((Charles Fishman))) 💧 @cfishman]

The Washington Post laid off its entire award-winning photo staff.

Every photographer, fired.

The WaPo photo staff has won 5 Pulitzers, including as recently as 2019.

With a newsroom that still has 300 journalists, how do you produce a daily report with…no photographers?

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[Jeremy Barr @jeremymbarr]

The Washington Post Guild has started a fundraising effort for laid off employees: https://t.co/HLCeMguOAi

[Susan Glasser @sbg1]

‘I don’t think he gives a flying fuck’ — tj great David Marannis, on Jeff Bezos’s ruination of the WaPo…

Important read here from ⁦@RuthMarcus⁩: https://t.co/ogB3LsvtBC

[Stephanie Grace @stephgracela]

Other examples: The Boston Globe, the Minnesota Star Tribune, which is doing stellar work under horrendous circumstances as we speak. The owners of the Picayune/Advocate are supporting a growing statewide news operation. It can be done and Bezos has resources. This is a choice.

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

[Sara Fischer @sarafischer]

“This is a tragic day for American journalism, the city of Washington, and the country as a whole. I'm grieving for reporters I love and whose work upheld the truest and most noble callings of the profession” - @JStein_WaPo
“They are being punished for mistakes they did not cause.”

[Dan Gabor @dan_gabor]

I stand with our members who were laid off today and with those left behind to pick up the pieces. The Post’s mission — to hold power to account without fear or favor — cannot be fulfilled without investing in the workers who carry it out. #SaveThePost @WBNG32035

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

No struggling newspaper ever saved itself by becoming a worse and less essential product. But what's happening today at the @washingtonpost is not just the latest devastating contraction of the news industry; it's the gutting of an American institution vital for a healthy society

[Liz Sly @LizSly]

Hi @JeffBezos, what you did today to the Washington Post is a monstrosity. It should be criminalized. Maybe Amazon is a shopping mall, Blue Origin a travel agency, but the Post isn’t a utility. It’s a legacy, a piece of history, an American institution. If you don’t respect that and can’t be trusted to sustain it, you should hand it over to someone who does.