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Article: 6l 8i 2i8ni 5l cking5al nd: Could the worst days be behind the Daily News?
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- Philadelphia Weekly
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- June 28, 2006
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Six weeks ago smart money held that Philadelphia Daily News staffers would be pounding the pavement for work by summer's end. Now they're looking forward to something many once thought impossible: a future.
"It's easier to focus on putting out the best paper we can," says DN editor Michael Days. "We've been telling our people, 'Don't focus on the sale. Don't even let your mind go there,' and now we don't have to tell them that anymore."
But that simple sense of relief doesn't tell the whole story.
The newsrooms at both the Inquirer and the Daily News were overcome with fear and trembling when it was announced that Philadelphia Media Holdings LLC. would be the papers' new ...