What Is Inquirer.com?

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Inquirer.com is the online home of The Philadelphia Inquirer, a daily newspaper serving Philadelphia and the surrounding region. The site publishes local news, sports, opinion, and investigative reporting, along with classified-style listings for jobs, cars, and homes. It is a subscription-based news site: some articles sit behind a paywall, and the site provides a "Subscribe" link for readers who want full access.

What the site covers

The homepage mixes breaking news with sports, opinion, and regional coverage. Based on the current front page, the range includes:

  • Local news and public safety — for example, reporting on a deadly West Philadelphia police shooting, the officer killed, and the wounded partner.
  • City politics and policy — coverage of Mayor Parker's call to expand involuntary commitment laws, and debate over proposed banking rule changes affecting Community Reinvestment Act lending.
  • Sports — Eagles coverage (clock management criticism, injuries to Saquon Barkley, DeVonta Smith, and Will Shipley), the Flyers' winless start, and USWNT matches.
  • Opinion — signed columns and op-eds, such as a piece arguing the Community Reinvestment Act helps working-class Philadelphians.
  • Regional and national items — the planned sinking of the SS United States, an Erie mass shooting, and an actor's arrest.
  • Listings — jobs, cars, and homes, reflected in the site's own tagline.

How access works

The site carries a "Subscribe" link, which indicates that at least some content is gated. The available material does not specify prices, tiers, or whether any articles are free to read, so treat subscription terms as something to check directly on the site rather than assume.

When it's useful

Use Inquirer.com when you want Philadelphia-focused reporting from an established local newsroom — particularly for city government, crime and courts, the Eagles and other Philadelphia teams, and regional opinion. If you need national or international news as your primary source, or you want content without any paywall, this is a local paper's site and its access model reflects that.