Philippine Daily Inquirer
The Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI), or simply the Inquirer, is an English-language newspaper in the Philippines. Founded in 1985, it is often regarded as the Philippines' newspaper of record.[1][2] The newspaper is the most awarded broadsheet in the Philippines and the multimedia group, called The Inquirer Group, reaches 54 million people across several platforms.[3]
Type
Daily newspaper
Juliet L. Javellana
Rudyard Arbolado
Joseph Voltaire Contreras
Raul Marcelo
Robert Jaworski Abaño
Gilbert Cadiz
Francis Ochoa
Remar Zamora
December 9, 1985
(14,012 issues)
English
1098 Chino Roces Ave. cor Yague and Mascardo Sts. 1204, Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines
1,979,000
47.12%
Inquirer Bandera, Inquirer Libre, Cebu Daily News
Reputation[edit]
The Philippine Daily Inquirer is considered as one of the trusted news sources among Filipinos in 2022, with a trust rating of 65% according to the Reuters Institute.[13] In the 2023 Digital News Report by Reuters Institute, the trust rating rose to 68%; making it one of the most trusted broadsheets in the country.[14] The same study also cites the Inquirer, with a weekly reach for print of 28% with 13% reaching users at least 3 days a week; which makes it the most read broadsheet in the country. In terms of online reach, 36% of people in the survey read the online edition with 20% reading the paper at least 3 days a week, ranking third, next to GMA and ABS-CBN.
At least two opinion pieces cite the Inquirer as the Philippines' newspaper of record, but as an opportunity for criticism: The Manila Times criticized it for "publish[ing] ... vapid, unthinking positions" which it called "reprehensible, at best";[15] GMA News, in 2014, noted it as a "de facto paper of record", followed by "This distinguished history only makes it more painful to say that the paper is starting to suck".[16]