Julia Terruso is a journalist and staff writer at Philadelphia Inquirer. The Inquirer is the largest newspaper in the United States organized under nonprofit ownership. Julia is covering the 2020 presidential election with a focus on voters and the issues and candidates resonating with them. 

Julia is a reporter in the City Hall bureau covering the mayor’s office. Other than The Inquirer, Terruso has worked in many big companies such as The Staff Ledger, The Daily Orange, and The Philadelphia Daily News.

OLYPHANT, Pa. — Think the country’s divided? Try this duplex.

— Julia Terruso (@JuliaTerruso) July 31, 2020

10 Fun Facts about Julia Terruso

1. Julia studied newspaper journalism at Syracuse University, a private university in Syracuse, New York from 2007-2011.
2. Terruso joined Twitter in June 2009 and has over 10.3k followers, where she mainly shares her political views, her work articles along current political news.
3. Julia has 736 followers on Instagram where she shares her travel pictures and pictures with her family and friends. She is on the platform for more than eight years. Her first post dates back to 26 February 2012, where she posted a picture of her friends and captioned ‘Queally and tall Queally.’
4. According to her social media accounts, she is a theater lover and a fan of Philly sports.
5. She went to Lower Merion High School, a public high school, a public high school in Ardmore, a community in Philadelphia’s Main Line suburbs from 2003-2007.
6. She studied overseas in Madrid, Spain in the spring of 2010 and is proficient in Spanish.
7. Julia covered the criminal justice system and the Essex County courthouse as a staff writer in The Staff Ledger from May 2011-Jul 2013.
8. Terruso worked as a general staff writer and assistant news editor covering nightly breaking news, assigned and edited and ran a 5-page news section five nights a week, and wrote long-form enterprise stories at The Daily Orange from Aug 2007 to Dec 2010.
9. Julia worked as an editorial intern for Philadelphia Inquirer from Jun 2010 – Aug 2010 and as a features intern for The Philadelphia Daily News from May 2009 – Aug 2009.
10. She has traveled to New York City for movie premieres and interviewed actors, directors, and area celebrities.