I spoke with SEPTA spokesman Andrew Busch about fake tokens: where do they come from and how do they end up packaged with real ones? After a little digging, I got details on how and where tokens are sorted and packaged.

You can read the full story here.

I spoke with Yoni Greenbaum and Mark Block about their former and current roles at Philadelphia Media Network, owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com, about Greenbaum’s departure after helping launch the company’s tablet device.

You can read the full story here.

The whole Uncapped crowd at Sigma Sound studio. Photo courtesy of 215mag.com.

Why was I involved with the Vitamin Water #UncappedLive event series Sept. 6? Part of the 16-day celebration of music, media, arts and other niches was the New Media Unplugged event hosted by two.one.five. magazine and Technically Philly at Philadelphia’s Sigma Sound studio.

I joined editors from Geekadelphia, Drink Philly, Naked Philly and Generocity, among others for a pretty informal discussion about my work with NEast Philly.

At 3 years old, NEast Philly was one of the older independently published sites represented at the event, but I ended up learning a lot and, I think more importantly, meeting my goal of connecting other small-time publishers with Northeast Philadelphia to drive more varied coverage to that huge but little-known part of the city.

It was great event with great people who are publishing or looking to publish news about everything, big and small, all across Philadelphia.

So what you’re hearing in this segment, which aired Aug. 24 at 6 p.m. is my commentary about a partnership between two major Pennsylvania newspapers.

Late last year, NEast Philly, the hyperlocal site for Northeast Philadelphia that I own and edit, was awarded an Enterprise Reporting Fund grant from J-Lab.

A handful of Philadelphia publications were given $5,000 grants to collaborate with other news organizations to produce in-depth reporting.

Work began for NEast Philly in January with the start of Temple University’s Spring 2011 semester. With reporting from Web Editor Christopher Wink and four Philadelphia Neighborhoods journalists, we put together more than 10 articles, several videos and some interactive pieces — all to examine and explain government funding to Mayfair, a Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood, during and after the three-decade reign of powerful former Pa. State Rep. John Perzel, who lost his seat in the November 2010 election and faces a corruption trial this fall.

You can check out the landing page here, which includes multimedia coverage and the link to all the stories. Kudos to Jim Smiley of the Frankford Gazette for designing the page, which will be updated as Perzel goes to trial. The page includes an interactive timeline and “key players” feature.

This a story I wrote for WHYY’s NewsWorks.org, where I work full-time as the Feed Blogger.

I spoke with Stephanie Deeter, public services manager for the Bucks County Free Library about the library’s summer contest that teaches kids about business through a lemonade stand contest.

You can read the full story here.

This a story I wrote for WHYY’s NewsWorks.org, where I work full-time as the Feed Blogger.

A Delaware Valley mall will assign retail space to a new dinosaur museum. I spoke with Granite Run Mall Marketing Director Aubrey Proud about the Dinosaur-ium,

You can read the full story here.

This a story I wrote for WHYY’s NewsWorks.org, where I work full-time as the Feed Blogger.

I spoke with the Philadelphia Zoo’s Carnivore Curator Tammy Schmidt about the zoo’s two new snow leopard cubs and how the zoo planned for their arrival and will see them into the future.

Full story with video here.

This a story I wrote for WHYY’s NewsWorks.org, where I work full-time as the Feed Blogger.

Kensington’s Visitation BVM parish was the only Philadelphia building chosen as a finalist in the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s This Place Matters grant competition. The parish is hoping for the $25,000 award to further its community outreach programs. Voting ends June 30.

You can read the full story here.

I was on the radio today for the first time ever. As part of my job with WHYY/NewsWorks, I’ve been asked to do semi-regular commentary on the media.

Why? Well my 9 to 5 job is the Feed, NewsWorks’ fast-paced blog that breaks news, connects with social media, engages readers and aggregates other media outlets. I’m usually the first to spot trends in the media, so with the launch of NewsWorks Tonight, our new radio show, this segment is a perfect fit for me.

So what you’re hearing in this segment, which aired Thursday, May 19 at 6 p.m. is my public radio debut — after just one practice run. I’ll post here whenever I’m on.