A judge ruled Friday that The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com would be sold at an auction open only to its existing owners.
The newspaper’s majority owners overstepped their authority when they fired William K. Marimow, its top editor, the judge ruled.
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The majority owners said they wanted to provide stability to the newspaper after a month of upheavals and lawsuits.
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The battle at The Philadelphia Inquirer may seem like one more bit of denouement for an industry on the wane, but it spotlights a fight for the soul of both an institution and a city.
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Bill Marimow, the editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, was fired Monday morning by the newspaper’s publisher.
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