brian Tierney

After technology and the worst recession in decades created enormous upheaval for the newspaper industry, the parent company of Philadelphia's leading papers is on the auction block today. Will billionaire Ron Perelman emerge as the hometown hero who saves the day?

After leading an investment team to buy The Philadelphia Inquirer in 2006, Brian P. Tierney invited the widow of its onetime owner, Walter Annenberg, to visit him in her husband's old office. While visiting, Lenore Annenberg noted that Tierney had situated his desk differently from her...

In June 2006, Brian P. Tierney (right, in suit) came to the beautiful white art deco building that houses the troubled Philadelphia Inquirer and vowed to restore it to its Pulitzer-winning glory. Now the entrepreneur is watching his fledgling media empire slip from his grasp. A hearing set for...

The liberal blogosphere has been in a tizzy over the Philadelphia Inquirer's hiring of John Yoo, the author of the Bush administration's so-called "torture memo," to write a column. The hiring inspired MSNBC's Keith Olberman to award the paper's executive editor William K. Marimow and editorial...

Wannabe media tycoon Brian P. Tierney could sell ice to Eskimos and make them think they were getting a good deal. But now the owner of Philadelphia's dominant newspapers will need every bit of his considerable power of persuasions to retain the influence he has cultivated for decades in the...