AAN News
Willamette Week Announces Publisher Changenew
Richard Meeker, who has served as publisher for the past 32 years, is turning over the reins to longtime business partner and editor Mark Zusman.
Willamette Week |
06-12-2015 3:00 pm |
Industry News
Alt-Weeklies Raise Over $6 Million for Community Nonprofits
More than $6 million was collectively raised for local nonprofit charities through the 2014 year-end “Give!” campaigns held by Willamette Week, Colorado Springs Independent, Monterey County Weekly and INDY Week.
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AAN |
02-19-2015 1:00 pm |
Industry News
Willamette Week Raises $128,640 on 'Giving Tuesday'
Willamette Week's Give!Guide, now in its 10th year, aims to encourage the giving habit in readers under the age of 36.
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Willamette Week |
12-05-2013 3:02 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Willamette Week, Richard Meeker
Four Alt-Weeklies Aim to Raise 4.7 Million for Non-Profits
Colorado Springs Independent, INDY Week, Monterey County Weekly, and Willamette Week have kicked off their annual "Give!" campaigns.
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Give! |
11-15-2013 11:45 am |
Industry News
Three AAN Members Raise $3.7 Million for Local Non-Profits
The 2012 year-end "Give!" campaigns by Colorado Springs Independent, Monterey County Weekly, and Willamette Week raised a combined $3.7 million for local non-profits.
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AAN |
02-04-2013 3:40 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Steve Schewel Announces Sale of Independent Weekly
The Independent Weekly (Durham, N.C.) and its
associated website, indyweek.com, are being sold to Richard Meeker and Mark Zusman. Meeker and Zusman are the owners of City of Roses Newspaper Company
which publishes Willamette Week and the Santa Fe Reporter.
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Independent Weekly |
08-22-2012 12:50 pm |
Press Releases
2011 'Give!' Campaigns Raise Nearly $3 Million for Non-Profits
Colorado Springs Independent, Monterey County Weekly and Willamette Week raised a combined $2.95 million for local non-profits.
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AAN |
01-23-2012 5:26 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Willamette Week Recuses Itself From Covering Oregon Attorney General Racenew
Editor Mark Zusman says the paper has a conflict of interest in covering the race between Dwight Holton and Ellen Rosenblum, who is married to Willamette Week publisher Richard Meeker.
Willamette Week |
01-11-2012 12:59 pm |
Industry News
National Newspaper Project Spotlights Willamette Weeknew
Portland's Willamette Week has been featured in "Who Needs Newspapers?" - a national project produced by the non-profit organization Valid Sources.
WhoNeedsNewspapers.org |
09-29-2011 4:56 pm |
Industry News
Three AAN Pubs Raise Over $2 Million For Local Non-Profits
Colorado Springs Independent, Monterey County Weekly, and Willamette Week have raised over $2 million for non-profit organizations in their communities through their respective "Give" campaigns.
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AAN |
01-11-2011 1:57 pm |
Industry News
Willamette Week Introduces Cost-Cutting Measuresnew
The Portland, Ore., alt-weekly was the latest to announce company-wide salary reductions yesterday. Effective March 16, staff pay will be reduced by 8 percent, while owners Mark Zusman and Richard Meeker will reduce their own pay by 25 percent. The move was made to keep the paper profitable for the balance of 2009. At the same meeting, Meeker, who is WW's publisher, announced that this week's paper was the largest since November and that ad sales for the spring appear ahead of budget.
Willamette Week |
03-13-2009 8:54 am |
Industry News
Willamette Week Raises Nearly $850K for Local Nonprofitsnew
Publisher Richard Meeker reports that 3,902 people made 8,419 donations totaling $806,581.81 to WW's 2008 Give!Guide, an annual program that supports local nonprofits and encourages the philanthropic impulse among readers 35 and under. When combined with the $4,000 in prizes from WW and $16,000 in prize money from a local research and consulting firm, the total raised this year for 55 Portland-area nonprofits was $826,581.81. Meeker says that's a 60 percent increase over last year and almost 40 times what the Give!Guide raised when it debuted four years ago.
Willamette Week |
01-28-2009 9:31 am |
Honors & Achievements
Willamette Week Honors This Year's Skidmore Prize Winnersnew
For the past five years, as part of its annual Give!Guide, which this year features 55 worthy Portland nonprofits, the paper has honored young nonprofit leaders with the Skidmore Prize. At a ceremony last week, the four recipients (Katy Kolker, Amy Harwood, Rodolfo Serna and Polly Bangs) each got a plaque and a check for $4,000 from WW publisher Richard Meeker and Multnomah County Commissioner Ted Wheeler. Read more about the honorees and their work here.
Willamette Week |
11-25-2008 8:42 am |
Industry News
Willamette Week Tightens Belt, but Santa Fe Reporter is 'Doing Well'new
In his yearly report to readers, Willamette Week publisher Richard Meeker says the Portland, Ore., newsweekly's financial situation has been "lousy." Advertising is down since July and the paper is more than ten percent below budget for the year. But the news isn't all bad. Meeker says WW's "total audience has remained steady" and its sister paper, the Santa Fe Reporter, is having a good year. Nevertheless, WW has laid off several staffers and transferred one staff writer to Santa Fe. Editor Mark Zusman tells AAN News that the paper laid off three classified sales representatives, one designer, and staff writer (and "Queer Window" columnist) Byron Beck, while Corey Pein moves to the Reporter. Although the paper will "be lucky to eke out a small profit this year," Meeker says he and Zusman are "eager to tackle the challenges we all now face, and more committed than ever to continuing -- and improving -- the quality of reporting and thinking we do." More on Beck's departure from the Portland Mercury and Just Out magazine.
Willamette Week |
11-12-2008 8:33 am |
Industry News
Willamette Week Raises More Than Half a Million Dollars for Nonprofitsnew
"You made so many donations to our annual Give!Guide that we're just now finishing the tallies and making final deliveries of incentives," writes publisher Richard Meeker. The 2007 installment of the paper's annual fund-raising endeavor produced more than $518,000 for 49 nonprofits in the Portland area, more than doubling 2006's total of $228,000.
Willamette Week |
01-24-2008 12:13 pm |
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