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Houston Press

Type	Alternative weekly
Format	Tabloid

Owner	Village Voice Media
Publisher	Stuart Folb
Editor	Margaret Downing
Founded	1989
Headquarters	1621 Milam Street, Suite 100 Houston, TX 77002 United States
Circulation	92,658^[1]

Website: houstonpress.com

The Houston Press is an alternative weekly newspaper published in Houston, Texas.

The paper, a part of the Village Voice Media group [1], is supported entirely by advertising revenue and is free to readers. The newspaper draws a weekly readership of more than 300,000, verified by an independent media audit and referenced on their website.^[2] The Press can be found in restaurants, coffee houses, and local retail stores. New weekly editions are distributed on Thursdays.

The Houston Press is one of the few alternatives to the mainstream Houston Chronicle.

The Houston Press is not to be confused with the newspaper of the same name that closed in 1964. The weekly Houston Press was founded locally in 1989 and bought out by New Times Media in 1996.

Editor Margaret Downing
Associate Editor Cathy Matusow
Music Editor John Nova Lomax
Web Editor Keith Plocek

The paper includes sections devoted to

News: Includes local, regional and sometimes statewide short and long news stories
Arts and Entertainment: Includes a weekly calendar, city events listings, a music section with a weekly music column, several music features, show previews, and CD reviews. Also includes a food column, DVD reviews, theater reviews, and the nightlife column Nightfly.
Online Offerings: The Press launched three blogs in 2006 and 2007, a news blog called Houstoned, a music blog called Houstoned Rocks and a sports blog called Houstoned Ballz.

[edit] Awards from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies

2007

First Place, Feature Story[2]; Third Place, Investigative Reporting [3] Todd Spivak
First Place, Music Criticism; Second Place, Arts Feature John Nova Lomax
Second Place, News Story/Long Form, Craig Malisow

2005

Honorable Mention, Column above 50,000: "Downing" by Margaret Downing
3rd Place, Education: Above 50,000: "HCCS's Gift Basket Bonanza" by Josh Harkinson
2nd Place, Food Writing: Above 50,000: "The Cow Says Oink" by Robb Walsh
3rd Place, News Story (1500 words or less): "Firing Line" by Josh Harkinson

2004

2nd Place, Column-Political: Above 50,000: Tim Fleck
1st Place, Food Writing: Above 50,000: Robb Walsh
3rd Place, Religion Reporting: Above 50,000: "Doing Time" by Scott Nowell

2003

1st Place, Media Reporting: Above 50,000: "Reality TV Bites" by Jennifer Mathieu

2001

2nd Place, Investigative Reporting: Above 54,000: "Paying the Price" by Bob Burtman

2000

1st Place, Column: Above 54,000: Margaret Downing
1st Place, Corrections Reporting: Above 54,000: "Trouble in Mind" by Steve McVicker

1999

1st Place, Online

1998

1st Place, Investigative Reporting: Above 54,000: "Easy Street" by Bob Burtman
1st Place, Web Site: "Webb Page Confidential"

Other recent awards of note include Todd Spivak's 2006 first place win [4]in the Investigative Reporters and Editors Association under 100,000 circulation weekly category, and Rich Connelly's first place in the humor category of the under 100,000 circulation bracket of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.