Monterey County Weekly
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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Milestone Communications Inc. |
| Founder(s) | Bradley H. Zeve |
| Founded | 1988 |
| Headquarters | 668 Williams Ave, Seaside, California United States
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| Website | www.montereycountyweekly.com |
The Monterey County Weekly (Sometimes called the "Weekly," formerly the Coast Weekly.) is a locally owned and independent newsmedia company founded in 1988. As per the publication's name, it publishes weekly, and is based in the city of Seaside, in Monterey County, California. The Weekly has been a member of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia since 1989.
Monterey County Weekly was launched in 1988 by Bradley Zeve, its founding Editor & Publisher, and current CEO. Zeve currently serves as the Free Speech chair for the Association of Alternative Newsmedia and is the former president of the Sea Studios Foundation (Zeve co-founded The Sun newspaper in Santa Cruz, CA). Erik Cushman serves as Publisher and currently sits on the California Newspaper Publisher's Association Board of Directors. Cushman was the co-founder of the Missoula Independent.
The Weekly established the Monterey County Weekly Community Fund at the Community Foundation for Monterey County in 2000, and launched Monterey County Gives! in 2009. To date, the fund has raised and donated over $12.3 million to 350+ local nonprofits, in partnership with the Community Foundation, the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Neumeier Poma Investment Council, Cannery Row Company and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The annual campaign runs from mid-November to midnight December 31.
The Weekly currently reaches one in three households in Monterey County (audited by Verified Audit Circulation), making it the most widely read publication in Monterey County. The Weekly begin uploading its entire contents online beginning in 1996, and now has four-weekly newsletters (Monday-Fresh Squid, Wednesday- Food & Drink, Thursday- Weekend Calendar, Sunday- Sunday e-paper).
Most recent readership audit Print Publication: Average Net Circulation: 33,583 (Print Edition) e-Edition only of Newspaper: Average Monthly Unique Users: 4,303 (Digital Edition) Website: Average Website Unique Users per week: 143,555 Social Media: Average Facebook Likes: 14,266 Average Twitter Followers: 8,406 E‐Newsletters: Average E‐Newsletter Subscribers: 36,086
Recipient of the First Amendment Coalition Free Speech & Open Government Award (2015) and Association of Alternative Newsmedia Free Speech Award (2016) http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/cover/the-case-of-father-edward-fitz-henry-and-the-diocese/collection_6bbb9bac-7d22-11e5-92df-8b0111c3f1e4.html
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