Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Philadelphia Media Network |
Founder(s) | John R. Walker and John Norvell |
Publisher | Terrance C.Z. Egger |
Editor-in-chief | Gabriel Escobar |
Editor | Stan Wischnowski |
Managing editors | Kim Fox, Patrick Kerkstra, Pat McCloone, Sandy Shea |
Founded | June 1, 1829 | (as The Pennsylvania Inquirer)
Headquarters | 801 Market Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Country | United States |
Circulation | 158,546 daily 312,197 Sunday[1] |
Sister newspapers | Philadelphia Daily News |
ISSN | 0885-6613 |
Website | www |
The Philadelphia Inquirer is a newspaper that serves the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area of the United States. The newspaper was founded by John R. Walker and John Norvell in June 1829 as The Pennsylvania Inquirer and is the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the United States.[2] Owned by the local group Philadelphia Media Holdings LLC, The Inquirer has the nineteenth largest average weekday U.S. newspaper circulation and has won eighteen Pulitzer Prizes.[3]