The Philadelphia Inquirer was founded on 1st June 1829 and is the third-oldest news daily in America. When the newspaper was established in 1829, it was among the eighth daily newspaper of Philadelphia. The original name of the newspaper was The Pennsylvania Inquirer. During the period of Civil War, Jesper Harding's son William took over the management and the name was changed to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Philadelphia Inquirer is an English daily covering international, local and national news. The newspaper features extensive coverage on Philadelphia and the metropolitan area of Pennsylvania-New Jersey. All total it has sixteen news bureaus of which six are non-U.S. news bureaus, two are state news bureaus and eight are national bureaus. It highlights the city of Philadelphia as a service center that is immensely contributing to insurance, hospital, banking, health care, education, legal services, and also as a shipping, transportation and cultural hub.
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The newspaper features letters to the editor, news items, wire stories, columns, feature stories and editorials.
Circulation of The Philadelphia Inquirer
The increasing popularity of the Internet in the recent years has led to the decrease in daily circulation of The Philadelphia Inquirer to 344,509. Presently, the newspaper does not rank within the top fifteen daily newspapers of United States. It has been figured out that more than two million readers in the average week read the print and on line editions of the newspaper. The Sunday edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer is still very popular with a circulation of 762,194 and ranks fifth among the American papers.
Over the years, The Philadelphia Inquirer has been awarded with many prizes for reporting and commentary, which also includes 18 Pulitzer Prizes.
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