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== Billy Penn == In April 2019, WHYY acquired local news website Billy Penn.<ref name="acquires">{{cite news |last1=Wolfman-Arent |first1=Avi |title=WHYY acquires local news site Billy Penn |url=https://whyy.org/articles/whyy-acquires-local-news-site-billy-penn/ |access-date=August 21, 2022 |work=WHYY |date=April 15, 2019}}</ref><ref name="buys">{{cite news |last1=Fernandez |first1=Bob |title=Public radio's WHYY buys Billy Penn news site |url=https://www.inquirer.com/business/billy-penn-sale-whyy-philadephia-local-news-site-20190415.html |access-date=August 21, 2022 |work=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |date=April 15, 2019 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204082715/https://www.inquirer.com/business/billy-penn-sale-whyy-philadephia-local-news-site-20190415.html |archive-date=December 4, 2019 |language=en}}</ref> At its 2014 founding, the site was conceived as a "mobile-first" site packaging local news for millennials.<ref name="acquires" /> The purchase was compared to New York public radio station [[WNYC]] buying the [[Gothamist]] in February 2018.<ref name="buys" />
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