Seattle Weekly

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Seattle Weekly
Seattle Weekly (newspaper) cover.jpg
Type Alternative weekly
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) Sound Publishing
Founder(s)
EditorAndy Hobbs [1]
Staff writersCameron Sheppard
Founded1976
Headquarters307 Third Avenue South
Seattle, Washington
Circulation formerly 38,000 (web-only since 2019) [2]
ISSN 0898-0845
OCLC number 17527271
Website seattleweekly.com

The Seattle Weekly is an alternative biweekly distributed newspaper in Seattle, Washington, United States. It was founded by Darrell Oldham and David Brewster as The Weekly. Its first issue was published on March 31, 1976, and it became a web-only publication on March 1, 2019. Since January 2013, it has been owned by Sound Publishing, Inc., a subsidiary of the Canadian company Black Press and the largest community news publisher in Washington State. [3] It is published each Wednesday.

Contents

Ownership history

Former owners of the Seattle Weekly include Sasquatch Publishing/Quickfish Media, Seattle from 1976 to 1997; Stern Publishing, New York, from 1997 to 2000; Village Voice Media, New York, from 2000 to 2012; and Voice Media Group from September 2012 to January 2013. [4] Village Voice Media executives Scott Tobias, Christine Brennan and Jeff Mars bought Village Voice Media's papers and associated web properties from its founders to form Voice Media Group. Sound Publishing purchased the Seattle Weekly from Voice Media Group in January 2013. [5]

In July 2006, longtime editor-in-chief Knute Berger announced he would be leaving the paper. [6]

Mark Baumgarten, former City Arts editor-in-chief and author of Love Rock Revolution, became editor-in-chief on March 12, 2013, replacing Mike Seely who resigned January of the same year. [7] [8] In January 2018, Seth Sommerfeld became editor-in-chief and Mark Baumgarten transitioned to editorial director for King County. In June 2018, Andy Hobbs replaced Baumgarten as editorial director, and in August 2018, he became editor-in-chief.

Eric LaFontaine was named publisher in May 2018 and was put in change of all digital and print operations. [9]

On February 25, 2019, Sound Publishing announced that the paper would transition to web-only content in a move similar to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer a decade earlier. [10] The final print edition was published on February 27, 2019, and the web-only portal was launched two days later. [11]

Columns

Competition

The Seattle Weekly's principal competitor is The Stranger , an alternative biweekly paper published in Seattle. [16]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Seattle Weekly". Association of Alternative Newsweeklies . Retrieved February 22, 2007.
  3. ↑ Provenza, Nick; Spencer, Aaron. "Seattle Weekly sold to Sound Publishing". The Seattle Times . Retrieved January 9, 2013.
  4. ↑ Ha, Anthony (September 23, 2012). "Village Voice Media Execs Acquire the Company's Famed Alt Weeklies, Form New Holding Company". Tech Crunch . Retrieved September 27, 2012.
  5. ↑ Zaragoza, Jason (January 9, 2013). "Seattle Weekly and SF Weekly Sold in Separate Transactions – Industry News". AltWeeklies.com. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  6. ↑ Pryne, Eric (July 23, 2006). "Uncertain times at Seattle Weekly". The Seattle Times. Retrieved February 22, 2007.
  7. ↑ "Seattle Weekly Names Mark Baumgarten Editor-in-Chief". Seattle Weekly. Retrieved April 9, 2018.[ dead link ]
  8. ↑ "Mike Seely leaving Seattle Weekly, Ballard bound". Seattle Post-Intelligencer.[ dead link ]
  9. ↑ "Eric LaFontaine Named Seattle Weekly Publisher" . Seattle Weekly. May 2, 2018. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  10. ↑ Connelly, Joel (February 25, 2019). "Seattle Weekly: Once-great writers' paper ceases print publication". Seattle Post-Intelligencer . Retrieved February 25, 2019.
  11. ↑ Roberts, Paul (February 25, 2019). "Seattle Weekly stops the presses, putting a period on four decades of print". The Seattle Times. Retrieved February 25, 2019.
  12. ↑ "Seattle Weekly: Ask an Uptight Seattleite". November 13, 2008. Retrieved March 4, 2009.
  13. ↑ "Uptight Seattleite columnist revealed – Local". MyNorthwest.com .[ dead link ]
  14. ↑ "Seattle Weekly: Dategirl". November 13, 2008. Retrieved March 4, 2009.
  15. ↑ "Seattle Weekly: Seattleland" . Retrieved November 12, 2014.
  16. ↑ Seattle Weekly Archived June 16, 2010, at the Wayback Machine at VillageVoiceMedia.com
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