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Article: Life with Brian: when it came to dealing with newspapers, PR man Brian Tierney was known as a bare-knuckled advocate who would bully and intimidate if that's what it took to get his way. Now he's the CEO of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News. Rather than running for cover, journalists are hoping his energy, optimism and connections will breathe new life into the long-suffering former Knight Ridder papers.
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- American Journalism Review
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- August 1, 2006
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Brian P. Tierney, the head of an investors group that in June purchased the whipsawed Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, understands the importance of image. When I meet him in late June in a windowed 12th floor conference room in the newspapers' shared building, he speaks passionately yet carefully about his new purchase, politely countering his detractors "with all due respect," pledging for perhaps the thousandth time that he will not interfere with news stories and insisting he'll be particularly sensitive to staying out when coverage concerns one of his numerous former public relations and advertising clients, from Verizon to the Pennsylvania State Lottery ...
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