33 Facts About The Philadelphia Inquirer

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

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

However, in 1962, an The Philadelphia Inquirer-commissioned historian traced The The Philadelphia Inquirer to John Dunlap's The Pennsylvania Packet, which was founded on October 28,1771.

In 1850, The Packet was merged with another newspaper, The North American, which later merged with the Philadelphia Public Ledger.

Six months after The 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.

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

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

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 The Philadelphia Inquirer was cut and the paper's size was increased, mostly with classified advertisements.

The first The Philadelphia Inquirer issue printed at the building came out on July 13,1925.

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

Between 1975 and 1990 The 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 The Philadelphia Inquirer was criticized for covering "Karachi better than Kensington".

Knight Ridder pressured The 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.

On Tuesday, June 2,2020 The The Philadelphia Inquirer ran an Inga Saffron article covering the George Floyd protests under the headline "Buildings Matter, Too", a reference to the "Black Lives Matter" movement.

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

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

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

Between 1929 and 1936, while under Patenotre and Curtis-Martin, The 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 The Philadelphia Inquirer banks closing was relegated to the back of the financial section.

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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.

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

PMH membership included Bruce E Toll, vice chairman of Toll Brothers Inc Tierney said that the group was aware that the fastest way to ruin its investment in The Inquirer was to threaten the paper's editorial independence.

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

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