The February 22, 2007 front page of Tucson Weekly |
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| Type | Alternative weekly |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner | Wick Communications |
| Publisher | Thomas P. Lee |
| Editor | Jimmy Boegle |
| Founded | 1984 |
| Headquarters | P.O. Box 27087 Tucson, AZ 85726 United States |
| Circulation | 48,690 [1] |
| ISSN | 0742-0692 |
| Official website | tucsonweekly.com |
The Tucson Weekly is an alternative newsweekly that was founded in 1984 by Douglas Biggers and Mark Goehring, and serves the Tucson, Arizona metropolitan area of about 900,000 residents. The paper is a member of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. Biggers was its editor and publisher until 2000, when he sold the paper to Wick Communications. The Weekly has a circulation of 49,792, according to a March 2005 audit by Verified Audit Circulation. New issues arrive at kiosks throughout Tucson every Thursday. Jimmy Boegle is the current editor in chief. Staff members include Irene Messina, assistant editor, and Jim Nintzel, senior writer.
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The founding editor was Douglas Biggers, who served until he sold the paper in 2000. Former editors in chief include Dan Huff, Carol Ann Bassett, James Reel and Michael Parnell[2]. Longtime Weekly and Arizona Daily Star reporter Chris Limberis was posthumously inducted into the Arizona Newspaper Association Hall of Fame in 2006.[3]
The Tucson Weekly was a launching point for the comic strip Red Meat, created by Tucsonan Max Cannon in 1989. Red Meat now appears in more than 75 alternative weeklies and college papers in the United States and in other countries, and also is featured on The Onion.