The Inquirer and Mirror

The Inquirer and Mirror

Type	Weekly newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	Dow Jones Local Media Group (a News Corporation subsidiary)
Publisher	Marianne Stanton
Editor	Marianne Stanton
Founded	1821
Headquarters	1 Old South Road, Nantucket, Massachusetts 02554 USA
Circulation	30,000 "in-season"
Official website	Ack.net

The Inquirer and Mirror, also called The I&M, or "The Inky" is the weekly newspaper of record on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts. It has been in continuous publication since 1821.

Sisters and competitors

The Inquirer and Mirror is part of the Dow Jones Local Media Group which also includes the New England newspapers of The Cape Cod Times, The Standard Times of New Bedford and The Portsmouth Herald, published by the Seacoast Media Group in Portsmouth, N.H. The Inquirer and Mirror, founded in 1821, has received many awards over the years and since 2000 has been named Newspaper of the Year twice by the New England Press Association, NEPA, twice Newspaper of the Year by The New England Newspaper Association, NENA, and Newspaper of the Year by Suburban Newspapers of America, SNA.

Trivia

The Nantucket Historical Association claims that the original "Nantucket" limerick was published in The I&M of February 7, 1903. It was a "clean" version -- the racier ones, historians said, came later. The full original verse was:

There once was a man from Nantucket,

Who kept all of his cash in a bucket,

But his daughter, named Nan,

Ran away with a man,

And as for the bucket, Nantucket.

The I&M Website, http://www.ack.net, takes its name from the IATA code of the island's only airport, ACK.