Jennifer Hopper, whose horrific experience was recounted in Eli Sanders' Pulitzer-winning feature story, visited the office of The Stranger yesterday after the award was announced.
Sanders is the first alt-weekly writer to win a Pulitzer since Jonathan Gold in 2007.
A recent survey of AAN papers revealed that the applications alt-weeklies are using to track circulation are as diverse as the newspapers themselves. A few papers rely on their in-house wiz for a custom-made program, but for the rest of the industry, a commercial package is the only sophisticated option. Alt-weekly circulation insiders describe their woes, successes, and dreams of better uses for the numbers.