Metro (Philadelphia newspaper)

For the region, see Delaware Valley metropolitan area

Metro is a free daily newspaper in Philadelphia which began publishing on Janurary 24, 2000. Its main competition is The Philadelphia Daily News, which it recently passed in circulation. The daily is primarily distributed by old-time newspaper hawkers paid to station themselves in areas with high pedestrian traffic, who offer the free paper to anyone who passes by. In addition, Metro can be found in distinctive green boxes on corners and in subway stations. There are also similar Metro papers offered in two other American cities, New York and Boston which are run by the same publishing company, Metro International.

Metro International, Swedish company based in the Mayfair section of London, is the world's leading publisher of free dailies, with 57 editions in 18 countries and 17 languages (7 edition in The United States and Canada publish in English; the Montreal edition is in French), including the largest-circulation papers in Paris and Rome.