Tom Ferrick, Jr. (1949) is an editor, reporter and columnist long active in print and web journalism in Philadelphia.
Until 2013, he was senior editor of Metropolis, a local news and information Web site based in Philadelphia that he founded in 2009.
[2] Ferrick got a job with a since-disbanded news service, the United Press International, in Philadelphia and later in Harrisburg.
He has recently been active in the Great Expectations Project, a partnership between UPenn and the Inquirer, which has held public forums throughout Philadelphia to accumulate voters' opinions Projekt to the 2007 Philadelphia mayoral race.
He was on a team of Inquirer reporters who covered the nuclear accident at the Three Mile Island plant, coverage that received a Pulitzer Prize.