History






      The story begins when Eugenia Duran-Apostol wanted to create a new magazine
 because her previous magazine job, which is the Woman Home Companion magazine,
 closed. So with the help of some friends to join as stockholders, she created a 
 new magazine called "Mr and Ms." It opened on the year 1975 during the Marcos rule.

      Mr and Ms was on its 8th year, when they heard that Ninoy Aquino have been
 assassinated in the airport after he arrived from exile in the United States.
 The Marcos-controlled newspaper companies did not make a report on it.
 Enraged, Eugenia made a special 16-page edition about it. Quickly, it became a
 bestseller and further made the Filipino's anger towards the Marcoses larger.
    
      One day, they decided to create another weekly to chronicle the trial,
 the newspaper was called the "Philippine Inquirer," which was named
 after the "Philipadelphia Inquirer." They invested on this,but they lost
 900,000 pesos, even though they lost almost a million, they did not surrender
 and they succeeded by creating a new daily newspaper which was founded
 in December 9,1985. 

      After that, they started to become famous and eventually, grew larger.
 They survived problems like stock problems, other companies and the government.
 Until Marcos was ousted because of their documentaries.

      Now, the Philippine Daily Inquirer is in its 20 years of service. Eugenia
 said that this was a great achievement. She also said that her dream of publishing
 a daily came true with her hardwork and with the help of God.








The Town that Printing Built

  
      When the inquirer was born 20 years ago, it did not have its own printing presses. 
 Instead, various small-scale newspaper printers divided up the printing. Some sections 
 would be printed in Quezon City while others were done in Makati and the
  remaining in Pasig. But now the inquirer has its own printing press, 
 located near the South Luzon Expressway, you will see a multi-colored building 
 with the name and logo,�Print Town.�

      Printing is one of the hardest manufacturing activities that is best
 described as �just not sexy.� In the newspaper business, the star is the
 journalist but the pressman does the work. Yet, a visit to Print Town 
 can be eye-opening. There are no longer dirty and sweaty work in producing 
 printed materials as portrayed in movies. Technology have become a big 
 part of the Print Town�s success. On 1997, print town, together with inquirer,
 formed a new company, The �Lexmedia Digital,� whose job was to convert 
 film-based advertising to digital. 

      It has been a long way from the days when Inquirer�s printing presses were
 small, 25-year-old newspaper printers. Now, print town have devoted 
 their everyday work for the development of having the �best way to put ink on paper.�



WEBSITE + TV = INQ7.NET


      In the year 2000, the Philippine Daily Inquirer realized the limit of a
 traditional news only website. They needed a 24 hour cycle of breaking news
 similar to broadcast television where round the clock news gathering and 
 reporting are made. So they formed a joint venture with GMA Network�s 
 Channel 7 to form INQ7.net

      The online website INQ7.net integrates the breaking news and multimedia
 contents from Channel 7. The first of this is the audio streaming of dzBB 
 radio news and Channel 7 entertainment talk shows. The breaking news story
 offer a glimpse of how a story develops in real time and running accounts of
 how stories unfold. SMS breaking news is also available to mobile phone users.

      This successful project has enables many overseas Filipinos to read and 
 listen news and view their favorite shows from home. Likewise, it expanded 
 its viewers to office workers locally and overseas. In conclusion, the combined
 journalism efforts of Inquirer and GMA 7 has improved public Service.





Front Page Evolution



As the time and news changes with them are the frontpages...
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