The Portland Mercury
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| Type | Alternative weekly |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Index Publishing |
| Publisher | Rob Thompson |
| Editor | Wm. Steven Humphrey |
| Founded | June 2000 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 115 SW Ash St., Suite 600 Portland, OR 97204 USA |
| Circulation | 45,000 (as of June 2014) |
| Website | www |
The Portland Mercury is an alternative weekly newspaper published in Portland, Oregon. It serves to chronicle the Portland music scene, and generally includes interviews, commentaries, reviews, and concert dates. It has an "I, Anonymous" section, in which local readers are encouraged to submit anonymous, usually impassioned, and often incendiary letters to the city at large, and Dan Savage's syndicated advice column Savage Love. There are adult, abstract and surrealist comic strips such as Maakies by Tony Millionaire, Kaz's Underworld by Kaz, and Idiot Box by Matt Bors. The Mercury is similar in style to its sibling publication, Seattle, Washington's The Stranger.
The Portland Mercury has published a number of notable writers and personalities, including Chelsea Cain, Paul Constant, Ian Karmel, Chuck Palahniuk, Eli Sanders, Dan Savage, David Schmader, and Sean Tejaratchi.
Past editors and reporters include Chas Bowie (arts editor), Phil Busse (managing editor), Ezra Ace Caraeff (music editor), Matthew Charles Davis (news reporter), Alison Hallett (arts editor), Katia Dunn (news reporter), Shelby R. King (news reporter), Sarah Mirk (news reporter), [Scott Moore (news editor), Zac Pennington (music editor), Amy J. Ruiz (news editor), Justin Wescoat Sanders (arts editor), Julianne Escobedo Shepherd (arts editrix), Katie Shimer (associate editor), Marjorie Skinner (managing editor), and Denis C. Theriault (news editor).
The Portland Mercury's publisher is Robert Thompson. The Portland Mercury’s current editorial staff consists of Editor-in-Chief Wm. Steven Humphrey, Managing Editor Erik Henriksen, Senior Editor Ned Lannamann, News Editor Dirk VanderHart, News Reporter Doug Brown, Music Editor Ciara Dolan, Arts Editor Megan Burbank, Calendar Editor Bobby Roberts, and Copy Chief Courtney Ferguson. While he is not yet an official editor, actor Sam Elliott has been known to visit the Mercury's offices.
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