Brian Tierney

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Brian P. Tierney is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, businessman and former Republican activist.[1] He is the chief executive of Philadelphia Media Holdings L.L.C., and the publisher of the The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News.

Tierney was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and received a law degree from Widener University. He founded Tierney Communications, a public relations firm, in 1989. He sold Tierney Communications and an ad agency he ran in 1998 to True North Communications.[2] Tierney's most notable public relations client was the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. In the late 1990s Tierney heavily criticized The Philadelphia Inquirer and Inquirer reporter Ralph Cipriano over reports about the Archdiocese. Cipriano later accused The Inquirer of giving into demands from the Archdiocese and censoring his reports.[3]

In March, 2006 Tierney assembled a group of mostly former clients or people that are with him on the board of the Episcopal Academy to buy Philadelphia Newspapers Inc. He and other local businessman formed Philadelphia Media Holdings L.L.C. and bought The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and philly.com from The McClatchy Company which was selling off less profitable newspapers after buying Philadelphia Newspapers Inc.'s parent company Knight Ridder.[1]

  1. ^ a b Dilanian, Ken; Larry Eichel (May 29 2006). How a long shot won the bidding for The Inquirer. The Philadelphia Inquirer. 
  2. ^ (May 25 2006) A brief biography of Brian P. Tierney. Associated Press. 
  3. ^ Dilanian, Ken (May 24 2006). Frequent critic of media takes newspapers' helm. The Philadelphia Inquirer. 

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