Seattle Weekly
Encyclopedia
Seattle Weekly is a freely distributed newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

 in Seattle, Washington
Seattle, Washington
Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...

, United States. It was founded by Darrell Oldham and David Brewster
David Brewster (journalist)
David Clark Brewster is an American journalist and the founder, editor and publisher of the Seattle Weekly and the online Northwest "newspaper" Crosscut.com...

 as The Weekly. Its first issue came out on March 31, 1976.

Ownership history

The paper is currently owned by Village Voice Media, which also owns the Village Voice and other free alternative weekly newspapers that are distributed each Wednesday.

Former owners of the Seattle Weekly include Sasquatch Publishing/Quickfish Media, Seattle from 1976 to 1997; Stern Publishing, New York from 1997–2000; and Village Voice Media, New York from 2000 to the present.

In July 2006, longtime editor-in-chief Knute Berger
Knute Berger
Knute "Skip" Berger is an American journalist, writer and editor based in Seattle, Washington.Berger is a columnist for Crosscut.com, writing under the name "Mossback"...

 announced he would be leaving the paper. The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times is a newspaper serving Seattle, Washington, US. It is the largest daily newspaper in the state of Washington. It has been, since the demise in 2009 of the printed version of the rival Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle's only major daily print newspaper.-History:The Seattle Times...

 profiled the change in leadership at the company in a Business & Technology section news report titled, "Uncertain Times at Seattle Weekly."

Notable columns

  • "Mossback", by Knute Berger as editor-in-chief.

  • "Ask an Uptight Seattlite", advice by an unknown columnist

  • "Dategirl", by Judy McGuire

Competition

The Seattle Weeklys principal competitor is The Stranger
The Stranger (newspaper)
The Stranger is an alternative weekly newspaper in Seattle, Washington, USA. It runs a blog known as Slog.-History:The Stranger was founded by Tim Keck, who had previously co-founded the satirical newspaper The Onion, and cartoonist James Sturm. Its first issue came out on September 23, 1991...

, another alternative weekly paper published in Seattle.

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