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.
Pacific Northwest Inlander picked up the General Excellence award.
From the Village Voice in 1981 to The Stranger in 2012, a brief history of alt-weekly Pulitzer Prize winners.
Colorado Springs Independent, Monterey County Weekly and Willamette Week raised a combined $2.95 million for local non-profits.
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.
Portland's Willamette Week has been featured in "Who Needs Newspapers?" - a national project produced by the non-profit organization Valid Sources.
Eugene Weekly, Missoula Independent, Pacific Northwest Inlander, Seattle Weekly and Willamette Week each picked up multiple Northwest Excellence in Journalism awards from the regional Society of Professional Journalists.
Traffic to David Cay Johnston's piece on tax myths, which ran in 40 alt-weeklies last week, caused Willamette Week's website to crash for about three hours Monday.
Brent Walth, who shared in a Pulitzer Prize for public service reporting while at The Oregonian, has been named Willamette Week's news editor. He replaces Hank Stern, who is leaving the paper to work for the county.
With taxes on the minds of most Americans, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) member papers are doing what they do best: providing an antidote to the myths that the mainstream media, local television news and politicians perpetuate about tax policy.
