Monterey County Weekly

Monterey County Weekly
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) Milestone Communications
Headquarters Seaside, California
 United States
Website www.montereycountyweekly.com


The Monterey County Weekly ([1] formerly the Coast Weekly) is a locally-owned and independent newspaper founded in 1988.[2] The Weekly has been a member of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia since 1989.

Reaching nearly one in three households countywide, Verified Audit Circulation Monterey County Weekly has the highest circulation of any newspaper in the county Verified Audit Circulation and has won over 75+ local, regional, state or national editorial awards including General Excellence for large circulation weekly newspapers in the California Newspaper Publishers Association Better Newspaper Contest (2012) .[3] While the reporting is nearly entire local, Monterey County Weekly was the only newspaper in the alternative press to send a reporter to the middle east to cover both the Desert Storm war in the early '90s and the Iraq war in early 2003.

[4] The Weekly was the first newspaper to go online in the county, starting in 1996.[5] The Weekly is powered by over 165 solar panels on its rooftop; the building was the commercial office building designed by renowned architect Charles Moore.

The Mission of the organization is to inspire independent thinking and conscious action, etc.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/coast-weekly-changes-name-to-monterey-county-weekly/Article?oid=133340
  2. ↑ http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/monterey-county-weekly/Company?oid=16
  3. ↑ http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/monterey-county-coast-weekly-reporter-returns-from-iraq/Article?oid=131488
  4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://coastweekly.com
  5. ↑ http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/monterey-county-weekly-goes-solar/Article?oid=184197

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