Inga Saffron writes about architecture, design and planning issues for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Her popular column, "Changing Skyline" has been appearing on Fridays in the paper’s Home & Design section since 1999. In 2012, she completed a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. She received a Pulitzer Prize in 2014 and in 2010 received the Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award.

Prior to her current role, Saffron spent five years as a correspondent in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union for The Inquirer. She covered wars in the former Yugoslavia and in Chechnya, and witnessed the destruction of Sarajevo and Grozny. It was in part because of those experiences that she became interested in the fate of cities and began writing about architecture.

Saffron began her journalism career as a magazine writer in Ireland and worked for the Courier-News in Plainfield, N.J., before joining The Inquirer in 1985 as a suburban reporter. She is the author of Becoming Philadelphia: How an Old American City Made Itself New Again, published by Rutgers University Press in 2020, and Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World's Most Coveted Delicacy, published by Broadway Books in 2002.