Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Publisher | The Skanner News Group |
Founded | October 1975 |
Headquarters | Portland, Oregon |
Circulation | 75,000 |
ISSN | 1543-6357 |
OCLC number | 12566075 |
Website | theskanner.com |
The Skanner or The Skanner News is an African-American newspaper covering the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Its head office is in Portland, Oregon, with an additional office in Seattle, Washington. As of 2014, it is being published in three formats: a daily website at theskanner.com, a weekly printed newspaper, plus a facsimile of the printed edition online.
In this era of concentration of media ownership The Skanner News is proving to be one of few remaining privately-owned newspapers.
The Skanner's own reporters investigate the issues of all minorities in the Pacific Northwest, but the publication's subject matter also covers national and world news.
The Skanner faces-off against government or large institutions that are treating minorities unfairly. It debates on the racial issues around gentrification, education and police accountability.
Each week The Skanner publishes one or more opinion articles by: Benjamin Chavis, George E. Curry, Marian Wright Edelman, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Jessie Jackson, Julianne Malveaux, Marc Morial or Al Sharpton.
The publication also features book reviews, film reviews and celebrity interviews from an African American perspective by Kam Williams.