Philadelphia Bulletin

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 12:30pm on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

The Philadelphia Bulletin stopped publishing on June 1, 2009, five years after the newspaper had been reborn.

Robert Moran of the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote this story:

"June 1, 2009: The Bulletin, a Philadelphia newspaper that developed a loyal following for being a strident conservative voice in the region, folded this afternoon, employees confirmed.

Around 4:15 p.m., about 25 employees were called together at the newspaper's office at 1500 Walnut St. and were told by publisher Thomas G. Rice that the paper could no longer afford to operate, employees said. Yesterday's edition was the Bulletin's last.

In an e-mail tonight, Rice said he didn't want to comment.

Meredith Cunningham, 24, who handled page layouts for the sports section, said the staff had not been getting paid on time for several months. Employees were not paid last week, Cunningham said.

Jenny DeHuff, 27, the newspaper's city reporter, said she was stunned, but not surprised, by the announcement. She said she was working on a story at home when she received a text message from a colleague saying, essentially: "You heard? We're done."

Rice started the paper in 2004 by paying for the right to use the Bulletin name from the family that used to publish the Philadelphia Bulletin, which shut down in 1982 but had long been the dominant newspaper in the city."

The full story:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20090601_The_Bulletin_folds_after_five_years.html