Tuesday brought relief to the Romney campaign after the Michigan native won his home state, as well as the Arizona primaries. Romney may be excited about his victory, but I am excited that the race is finally receiving coverage in the Philadelphia news market-- better late than never!

This was the first campaign stop that Philly.com covered extensively with live blogs, multiple articles and the usual AP stories. 

The best part about Philly.com's site is that the way they cover local politics in regards to the national election. The Inquirer especially focuses on the importance of the race locally, but this is a new development on the site. One article discusses the opening of an Obama campaign office in Philadelphia, while another talks about the GOP race happenings and how it will affect the race in Pennsylvania. 

For my Seminar in Journalism class, I will be covering the reporting of Philly.com, the website featuring news from both The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Daily News. Since it is two separate newspapers with one active site, the amount of news produced is immense and the organization of the website is essential.

The Inquirer is printed seven days a week, and according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations it is the 11th most circulated newspaper in America. The Daily News is also published seven days a week, but it is in a tabloid form. It is currently published as an edition to The Philadelphia Inquirer. 

Philly.com provides full coverage for local and regional news, including sports, entertainment, business, and lifestyle. More of a regional news source than national source, Philly.com focuses on news for Philadelphia and South Jersey. Because of this, much of the site has AP coverage regarding the national GOP presidential nomination.

The website is a little difficult to manage at first, but the homepage covered important and relevant stories for the region; Joe Paterno’s recent death had a hold on coverage over the weekend. The threshold the site had for multimedia was standard-- not too many exciting practices or innovative video were featured. 

Although the site had a primary focus on regional happenings, I did not notice a bias with either of the papers’ coverage on political happenings at first glance. I will continue to explore and critique Philly.com’s political coverage throughout the upcoming semester.