The Philadelphia Inquirer

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]

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Type	Daily newspaper
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; 196 years ago (1829-06-01) (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.philly.com

Awards

Pulitzer Prizes awarded to The Philadelphia Inquirer
Year	Award	Person(s)	Work
1975	National Reporting	Donald Barlett and James B. Steele	"Auditing the Internal Revenue Service" series
1976	Editorial Cartooning	Tony Auth	"O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain"
1977	Local Investigative Specialized Reporting	Acel Moore and Wendell Rawls, Jr.	Report on the conditions at the Fairview State Hospital for the mentally ill
1978	Public Service	The Philadelphia Inquirer	A series of articles on the abuse of power by Philadelphia police
1979	International Reporting	Richard Ben Cramer	Reports from the Middle East
1980	Local General or Spot News Reporting	Staff of The Philadelphia Inquirer	Coverage of the Three Mile Island accident
1985	Investigative Reporting	William K. Marimow	Expose on the Philadelphia police K-9 unit
1985	Feature Photography	Larry C. Price	Series of photographs from Angola and El Salvador
1986	National Reporting	Arthur Howe	Report on deficiencies in IRS processing of tax returns-reporting
1986	Feature Photography	Tom Gralish	Series of photographs on the homeless in Philadelphia
1987	Investigative Reporting	John Woestendiek	Prison beat reporting
1987	Investigative Reporting	Daniel R. Biddle, H. G. Bissinger and Fredric N. Tulsky	"Disorder in the Court"
1987	Feature Writing	Steve Twomey	Profile of life aboard an aircraft carrier
1988	National Reporting	Tim Weiner	Series on a secret Pentagon budget used for defense research and an arms buildup
1989	National Reporting	Donald Barlett and James B. Steele	Investigation into the Tax Reform Act of 1986
1989	Feature Writing	David Zucchino	"Being Black in South Africa"
1990	Public Service	Gilbert M. Gaul	Report on the American blood industry
1997	Explanatory Journalism	Michael Vitez, April Saul and Ron Cortes	Series on the choices of the critically-ill
Source: The Pulitzer Prizes: Columbia University[4]