Gabriel Escobar

Gabriel Escobar is the editor and senior vice president of The Philadelphia Inquirer, which was founded in 1829 and is one of the oldest continuously published newspapers in the Western Hemisphere. Escobar has extensive experience as both a reporter and news manager. He spent 16 years at The Washington Post, as a reporter on the local and national staffs, as a foreign correspondent based in South America and as city editor. At the Inquirer he has worked as managing editor, deputy managing editor for Metro and as assistant managing editor for news. Escobar also worked at The Hartford Courant, the Philadelphia Daily News and The Dallas Morning News, where he was an editorial writer and columnist. He was named editor at The Inquirer in November 2020. Escobar was born in Bogota, Colombia and grew up in New York City. He has a BA in creative writing from Queens College, CUNY, and a masters in journalism from the University of Maryland.