The Morning Call
Summary
The Morning Call is a daily newspaper based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The newspaper is owned by the Tribune Company, whose other publications include the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and Baltimore Sun.The Morning Call serves a nine-county region of eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey and is the largest circulation newspaper of the Lehigh Valley, the third most populous region of Pennsylvania. It once ranked among the nation's top 100 largest-circulation newspapers, with circulation of 109,000 daily readers and 148,000 Sunday readers. As of October 2010, circulation is now 94,859 daily readers and 121,168 Sunday readers.The Morning Call traces its beginnings to May 26, 1883, when Samuel S.
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Wendy Warren leaves Philly.com for NBCWashington.com
Philly. com editor Wendy Warren is leaving Philly. com to join NBCWashington. com, the website for WRC-TV, an NBC-owned station in Washington, D. C. Warren will be editorial manager, digital. Here’s the memo from NBCWashington GM Jackie Bradford:.
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How undisclosed money works its way in
PENNSYLVANIA — The US Senate primary here may be over, but the work of understanding how the contest was played—and shedding light on who paid to play—goes on, thanks to enterprise reporting by the Center for Responsive Politics's OpenSecrets Blog and additional reporting by The (Allentown) Morning Call. The April 24 contest itself wasn't close, with Republican nominee Tom Smith.
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Charles Snelling, politician and Morning Call guest columnist, kills wife, self
Morning Call Charles Snelling, a businessman and well-connected Republican who wrote a regular guest column for The Morning Call in Allentown, Penn. , killed his wife, Adrienne Snelling, and himself Thursday, the paper reports. Both were 81. Adrienne Snelling had… Read more.
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Live-tweeting media descend on town of 6,100 for Jerry Sandusky hearing
The New York Times | Aaron Fleishman “On Monday night,” reports Jere Longman for the Times, “traffic on the town square was closed pending the arrival of 29 television satellite trucks. ” Tuesday morning, Brad Bell, a reporter for WJLA-TV… Read more.
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Business Newspaper Sold
Harrisburg publishing company Journal Publications Inc. is buying The Eastern Pennsylvania Business Journal, a weekly business newspaper in Bethlehem that serves an eight-county region.
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The Morning Call Revisits Amazon's Work Conditions
Remember that Morning Call investigation a couple of months ago into an Amazon sweatshop outside Allentown, Pennsylvania? The paper showed that the company endangered temp employees in a warehouse where temperatures sometimes hit 110 degrees all while issuing difficult-or-impossible-to-meet productivity standards in order to keep from hiring them full time. It turns out Amazon's climate-control problem was year-round.
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The Washington Post: Amazon story lands big for small paper
Erik Wemple: "There’s a good lesson for newspapers in [Pennsylvania newspaper the Morning Call's] detailed and compelling investigation [into conditions at Amazon. com’s Lehigh Valley warehouse facilities]: If there’s a name brand employing lots of people in your coverage area — Amazon certainly qualifies — take a look at how it treats its employees.
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Allentown Morning Call: Inside Amazon.com warehouse workers complain of brutal conditions
"Heat prompted complaints about working conditions at Amazon to federal regulators who monitor workplace safety. The Morning Call obtained documents regarding the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's inspection through the Freedom of Information Act. ".
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The Morning Lowdown 09-26-11
Some of the stories people are talking about this morning: Netflix (.
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The Morning Call's Amazon Sweatshop Probe
What's going on with labor in Pennsylvania? It was just last month that foreign students working at Hershey's for the summer went on strike over poor labor conditions. Now, a huge investigation in the Allentown Morning Call shows Amazon treating its local warehouse workers like dirt—and endangering their health.
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