He also wrote for The Inquirer, and before that The Register, and before that ... some other print trade mag I can't recall. This goes back to the early 2000s w

He also wrote for The Inquirer, and before that The Register, and before that ... some other print trade mag I can't recall. This goes back to the early 2000s when those papers actually broke stories and not press release. IIRC Semiaccurate is "his" project after leaving The Inquirer a couple years back. And yes, a lot of what Charlie Demerjian reports is rumors with a little corroboration. But that's why he scoops other sources by months.