Willamette Week

Willamette Week

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Type	Alternative weekly
Format	Tabloid
Owner(s)	City of Roses Newspapers
Publisher	Mark Zusman (2015–); Richard Meeker (1984–2015)
Editor	Mark Zusman
Founded	November 1974
Headquarters	2220 NW Quimby St. Portland, OR 97210 US
Circulation	70,000 (as of February 2015)
Website	wweek.com

Willamette Week (WW) is an alternative weekly newspaper and a website published in Portland, Oregon, United States, since 1974. It features reports on local news, politics, sports, business and culture.

Willamette Week is the only weekly newspaper to have had one of its reporters, Nigel Jaquiss, win a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. It is also the first newspaper to have won a Pulitzer for a story first published online.

Willamette Week was founded in 1974 by Ronald A. Buel, who served as its first publisher. It was later owned by the Eugene Register-Guard, which sold it in the fall of 1983 to Richard H. Meeker and Mark Zusman, who took the positions of publisher and editor, respectively. Meeker had been one of the paper's first reporters, starting in 1974, and Zusman had joined the paper as a business writer in 1982. Meeker and Zusman formed City of Roses Newspaper Company to publish WW and a sister publication, Fresh Weekly, a free guide to local arts and entertainment. WW had a paid circulation at that time, with about 12,000 subscribers. A major change was made in January 1984, when Fresh Weekly was merged into WW, the paper's print run was increased to 50,000 and paid circulation was discontinued, with WW thereafter being distributed free.

In June 2015, Richard Meeker stepped down as Willamette Week's publisher, after more than 31 years in the position. Editor Mark Zusman succeeded him as publisher, while also retaining the editorship. Meeker planned to continue working for the City of Roses Newspaper Company, WW's owner.

Prior to his death in 2010, cartoonist John Callahan's long-running comic "Callahan" appeared weekly in the paper.

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