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:

Are Our Kids Not Learning Good?

Budget cuts. School closures. Structural deficit. Scant academic progress. Spin from District headquarters. Larry Platt asks: Is Superintendent Watlington up to being a transformational leader?

By Larry Platt

Don’t Look Now … But Philly is Safe

How the hell did that happen? And why is the mayor not taking more credit for it? The anatomy of a stunning turnaround

By Larry Platt

Snow, a Mayor’s Kryptonite

It's been 11 days since snowmageddon. How's Cherelle Parker doing?

By Larry Platt

Are You There, Constitution Center? It’s Me, a Citizen

Jeffrey Rosen is out. Now, the NCC must decide if it will remain a genteel place of scholarship or become the antidote to the threat to democracy

By Larry Platt

What’s Rochelle Bilal Smoking?

Progressives cheered, but the Sheriff’s viral press conference about Trump and ICE was a spectacle Philly can ill afford on the national stage right now

By Larry Platt

Whose 250th Is This Anyway?

The nation was birthed in Philly, and we do have some great parties — and soccer! — planned. But, as democracy teeters, are we really owning the semiquincentennial?

By Larry Platt

An Ask From Some Higher Powers

Citizen Media Group CEO/President on why what we do matters now more than ever — and how you can keep us going.

By Larry Platt

Amy Gutmann’s American Story

Last week at the Weitzman Museum of Jewish History, the former Penn president and US Ambassador to Germany reminded us what it takes to repair the breach

By Larry Platt

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