2025 Reporter
Jake Blumgart, the Inquirer
Blumgart doesn’t have the flashiest beat (Eagles) or the most headline-grabbing (cops), but we’d argue that he has the most important beat in the city right now: real estate. With so many changes in the real estate market — post-pandemic blues, empty office buildings, shifting federal funding — we count on Blumgart to guide us through it. And he does it with a reporter’s eye for details and a novelist’s sense of narrative. If you’re ever wondering “What’s happening there?” Blumgart likely has the answer.