Founded:
Founded June 1, 1829. The Philadelphia Inquirer is America's third-oldest
surviving daily newspaper. On Dec. 31, 1969, The Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News
joined Knight Newspapers, Inc. Philadelphia Media Holdings purchased the papers along with philly.com in June of 2006.
Distinction:
The Philadelphia Inquirer's tradition of aggressive enterprise,
explanatory reporting and stylish writing has been accorded 18 Pulitzer Prizes.
Market:
Moved from industrial economy to service economy, with tourism viewed
as a key to revitalizing Center City Philadelphia.
Bureaus:
Conshohocken, Pa; Doylestown, Pa; Media, Pa; West Chester, Pa; Norristown, Pa; Cherry Hill, NJ; Margate, NJ
THE STAFF
Key Executives:
CEO: Brian Tierney
Executive Vice President/Editor: Bill Marimow
Employees:
PN (Includes Inquirer, Daily News and philly.com) 3,800 full- and part-time
Newsroom Staff
Reporters: 223
Editors: 221
Photographers: 21
Graphic artists: 7
Total journalist staff: 472
AWARDS AND CREATIVE
VENTURES
Major Awards:
18 Pulitzer Prizes, most other national, regional, local awards for journalistic
excellence.
Creative Ventures:
Philadelphia Online (www.phillynews.com); a number of books published; Coproduces
International Women's Show, Philadelphia Holiday Show; Cosponsors Greater
Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce Small Business Fair, South Jersey Business
Expo, Philadelphia Home Show, Philadelphia Sport and Travel Show. The Philadelphia Inquirer Sudoku National Championship
Well-known Newsroom Personalities:
Columnists Karen Heller; Monica Yant Kinney; Craig LaBan; Trudy Rubin; Annette John-Hall; Daniel Rubin; Ashley Fox; David Aldridge; Michael Klein; Alfred Lubrano; Inga Saffron; Carrie Rickey; Steven Rea; Dan DeLuca.
Community Involvement:
The Philadelphia Inquirer Student Citizenship Awards;
Regional Workshop for Minority High School Journalists conducted by staff
volunteers; Happiness Edition published for Old Newsboy's Day, supporting
Variety Club's summer camp for handicapped children; Art Peters editing internship
for minority college students; The Inquirer's Six Holiday Charities fund-raising
drives at Thanksgiving and Christmas; African-American role model series.
PNI maintains an active corporate giving program and its executives are well-represented
on the boards of numerous non-profit organizations.
CIRCULATION AND TECHNOLOGY
Site:
1.4
million-square-foot building, covering more than two city blocks plus new
700,000-square-foot printing and distributing facility located in Conshohocken,
Pa., shared with the Daily News.
Tour information:
Carrier Force:
Agent contractors
Production:
1992 Goss Colorliner Offset
Technology:
Front end systems for Editorial production are Unisys - Hermes: pagination
and editing; Wire Center: wire gathering and photo processing; and Doc Center:
multi-media archive and retrieval. Display ads are created in Prepress using
Quark on Macs using Autologic’s Ad Manager system that’s an archive and retrieval
system for display ads. Liteface ads are created on the Atex Integrated Advertising
System and are paginated using the Atex Classified Pagination system on IBM
RISC 6000 machines. The Atex system was replaced by the Mactive advertising
system in the first quarter of 2003.
Color:
115 pages per week
