Production
The Philadelphia Inquirer is headquartered at 801 Market Street in Center City Philadelphia along with The Philadelphia Daily News. The Inquirer is printed seven days a week at the Schuylkill Printing Plant in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. According to BurrellesLuce, The Inquirer is the fifteenth most circulated weekday newspaper in the United States. The Inquirer's publisher is Bob Hall. Hall, who previously served as publisher from 1990 to 2003, replaced Gregory J. Osberg shortly after Philadelphia Media Network was purchased in 2012. The Inquirer's editor is William K. Marimow. Marimow served as editor from 2006 - 2010 and returned in May 2012. Since 1995, The Inquirer has been available on the Internet at Philly.com, which, along with the Philadelphia Daily News is a division of Philadelphia Media Network.
The Inquirer's local coverage covers Philadelphia, southeastern Pennsylvania, and southern New Jersey. In Pennsylvania, The Inquirer maintains bureaus in Conshohocken; Doylestown; Media; West Chester; and Norristown, while in New Jersey it has bureaus in Cherry Hill and Margate. In September 1994 The Inquirer and WPHL-TV co-produced a 10:00 PM newscast called Inquirer News Tonight. The show lasted a year before WPHL-TV took complete control over the program and was renamed WB17 News at Ten. In 2004, The Inquirer formed a partnership with Philadelphia's NBC station, WCAU, giving the paper access to WCAU's weather forecast while also contributing to news segments throughout the day.
| 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 | |
| 2012 | Public Service | Staff of The Philadelphia Inquirer | "...exploration of pervasive violence in the city’s schools" | |
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