WHYY: Philadelphia Media Network killed two stories about potential buyer of company | Poynter.

Dave Davies writes that he has more evidence — a photo of the Inquirer’s budget for the Tuesday paper — that the management of Philadelphia Media Network has quashed news stories about a potential buyer of the company. The Inquirer planned to write about Bart Blatstein’s group after it issued a press release Monday, but “the story was spiked,” according to Davies. On Tuesday, spokesman Mark Block asked that a Daily News blog post about Blatstein’s group be removed and replaced with the company’s statement that it wasn’t negotiating with the buyers.