Larry Platt Co-Founder/Co-Executive Director

Larry Platt

A Philadelphia media fixture since the early ‘90s, Larry Platt is the former editor of The Philadelphia Daily News and Philadelphia magazine, a producer of Kelce, and the co-author of the bestselling Every Day I Fight, the cancer memoir of ESPN’s Stuart Scott. He has written for New York, GQ, the New York Times Magazine, and Men’s Journal.

“I’ve run two major media institutions in our town and have yet to consistently produce the kind of journalism the city and Democracy truly needs,” Platt says.

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Stories by Larry Platt:

The Fix: Three Philly Profiles in Courage

Congressmembers Chrissy Houlahan, Brendan Boyle and Brian Fitzpatrick all recently exhibited a quality voters rarely reward anymore: Integrity

By Larry Platt

A Tax Reform Plan Even Progressives Can Love?

Jefferson Health is the latest to eye leaving the city. Can the Tax Reform Commission’s recommendations deviate from past ones and jumpstart job growth?

By Larry Platt

Hey Philly, Let’s Tell Bezos to Suck It

The Citizen is intensely hyperlocal. But attacks on Enlightenment values know no borders. Here, a way to stand against media surrender and get clearer on national affairs without regard to ideology

By Larry Platt

Does Philly Need Our Own (Gulp!) DOGE?

While Oligarch-in-Chief Musk wages culture war on the so-called deep state, what’s the way forward for local and national Democrats? Actually showing they can make government work better for you

By Larry Platt

Is Larry Krasner in Trouble?

If character is still an issue in local elections, he just may be. The DA faces a shifting zeitgeist and a credible challenger in Pat Dugan, who has already garnered the support of labor leader Ryan Boyer

By Larry Platt

Citizen of the Year Awards: Lifetime Achievement Larry Magid

The legendary concert promoter and rock and roll impresario didn’t just help create the 60s and 70s counterculture. He rocked the world, but he’s as Philly as they come

By Larry Platt

Would Senator Robert F. Kennedy Vote to Confirm RFK, Jr.?

RFK Jr’s confirmation grilling makes you wonder whether his iconoclastic father would have voted for his own son. What would the senior RFK’s biographers say?

By Larry Platt

Greg Deavens on Retirement and Beyond

Our Lewis Katz Corporate Citizen of the Year, who we’ll honor next month, on retiring next year, continuing to serve Philadelphia, and his (gasp) Dallas Cowboys fandom

By Larry Platt

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