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| Type | Alternative weekly |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner | City of Roses Newspapers |
| Publisher | Richard Meeker |
| Editor | Mark Zusman |
| Founded | November 1974 |
| Headquarters | 2220 NW Quimby St. Portland, OR 97210 United States |
| Circulation | 89,807[1] |
| Official website | wweek.com |
Willamette Week (WW) is an alternative weekly newspaper published in Portland, Oregon, United States. It features reports on local news, politics, sports, business and culture.
Willamette Week is the only weekly newspaper to have one of its reporters win a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.[2] It was the first newspaper to win a Pulitzer for a story that it first published online. During 2007, WW had more 18- to 34-year-old Portland-area readers than the weekly editions of The Oregonian and its weekly arts and entertainment publication, "A&E."[3]
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As part of its news coverage, WW features the "Rogue of the Week", in which a recent action by a local person or organization is criticized. It also spotlights "Winners and losers", recapping major news events of the week, from the perspective of who benefited and who did not.
Prior to his death in 2010, the paper published "Callahan", a long-standing comic by John Callahan.
The paper is free; it generates over 80% of its revenue through display advertising.[3] For 2007, its revenue is expected to be about $6.25 million, a four or five percent increase over 2006, a growth that occurred in spite of a significant decline in classified advertising that the publisher attributes to competition from Craigslist.[3] Its pre-tax profit is around 5%, a third to a half of what large mass media companies require.[3]
A number of notable journalists and writers have worked at Willamette Week over the past three decades including:
Notable stories first reported by WW include: