31 Facts About Philadelphia Inquirer

Philadelphia Inquirer is a daily newspaper headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States.

Philadelphia Inquirer first became a major newspaper during the American Civil War.

Six months after The Philadelphia Inquirer was founded, with competition from eight established daily newspapers, lack of funds forced Norvell and Walker to sell the newspaper to publisher and United States Gazette associate editor Jesper Harding.

Under Harding, in 1829, The Philadelphia Inquirer moved from its original location between Front and Second Streets to between Second and Third Streets.

Ten years later The Philadelphia Inquirer again was moved, this time to its own building at the corner of Third Street and Carter's Alley.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer supported the Union, but Harding wanted their coverage to remain neutral.

In 1890, in an attempt to increase circulation further, the price of The Philadelphia Inquirer was cut and the paper's size was increased, mostly with classified advertisements.

Subsequently, ownership of The Philadelphia Inquirer returned to the Patenotre family and Elverson Corp.

Not long after, in 1947, the Record went out of business and The Philadelphia Inquirer became Philadelphia's only major daily morning newspaper.

In 1948, Walter Annenberg expanded the Philadelphia Inquirer Building with a new structure that housed new printing presses for The Philadelphia Inquirer and, during the 1950s and 1960s, Annenberg's other properties, Seventeen and TV Guide.

Between 1975 and 1990 The Philadelphia Inquirer won seventeen Pulitzers, six consecutively between 1975 and 1980, and more journalism awards than any other newspaper in the United States.

The Philadelphia Inquirer was criticized for covering "Karachi better than Kensington".

Knight Ridder pressured The Philadelphia Inquirer to expand into the more profitable suburbs, while at the same time cutting staff and coverage of national and international stories.

Philadelphia Inquirer continued to struggle to make a profit, due to competition from digital media sources.

Philadelphia Media Network sold the Inquirer Building in October 2011 to developer Bart Blatstein, of Tower Investments Inc, who intends to turn the complex into a mixed-use complex of offices retail and apartments.

Philadelphia Media Network was renamed The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLC Also, in 2019, The Philadelphia Inquirer was a founding member of Spotlight PA, an investigative reporting partnership focused on Pennsylvania.

When Norvell and John Walker founded The Philadelphia Inquirer they wanted the newspaper to represent all people and not just the higher classes.

Once the war began The Philadelphia Inquirer maintained an independent reporting of the war's events.

At first The Philadelphia Inquirer's editors were against emancipation of the slaves, but after setbacks by the Union army The Philadelphia Inquirer started advocating a more pro-war and pro-Republican stance.

Between 1929 and 1936, while under Patenotre and Curtis-Martin, The Philadelphia Inquirer continued to support the Republican party and President Herbert Hoover, noticeably by not reporting on the news of the Great Depression.

Information about Philadelphia Inquirer banks closing was relegated to the back of the financial section.

When Moses Annenberg took over The Philadelphia Inquirer, he announced that the paper would "continue to uphold the principles of the Republican Party", but in a meeting with newspaper editors shortly after, he proposed that the paper go independent and support President Franklin D Roosevelt in the upcoming election.

Philadelphia Inquirer strongly opposed Democratic Pennsylvania governor George Earle and had The Inquirer support the Republican candidates in the 1938 Pennsylvania state elections.

However, conservative commentators have labeled The Philadelphia Inquirer left leaning, and the paper has not endorsed a Republican candidate for President of the United States since Gerald Ford in 1976.

In 2006, The Philadelphia Inquirer became one of the only major United States newspapers to print one of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons.

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Tierney, a Republican activist who had represented many local groups in the Philadelphia area, had criticized The Inquirer in the past on behalf of his clients.

In March 2020, The NewsGuild of Greater Philadelphia and Philadelphia Inquirer LLC reached an agreement on a three-year contract agreement that would include a workforce diversity provision and raises for the entire newsroom, which hadn't seen across the board salary increases since August 2009.

Philadelphia Inquirer is headquartered at 801 Market Street in the Market East section of Center City Philadelphia along with the Philadelphia Daily News.

In 2020 The Philadelphia Inquirer closed its Schuylkill Printing Plant in Upper Merion Township, laying off about 500 employees.

Since 1995, The Philadelphia Inquirer has been available on the Internet, most recently at Philadelphia Inquirer.

In 2004, The Inquirer formed a partnership with Philadelphia's NBC station, WCAU, giving the paper access to WCAU's weather forecasts while contributing to news segments throughout the day.