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Willamette Week
Alternative weekly newspaper in Portland, Oregon, United States
Willamette Week (WW) is an alternative weekly newspaper and a website published in Portland, Oregon, United States, since 1974.
It features reports on local news, politics, sports, business, and culture.
History
Early history
Willamette Week was founded in 1974 by Ronald A. Buel,[3] who served as its first publisher.[4] It was later owned by the Eugene Register-Guard, which sold it in the fall of 1983 to Richard H.
Meeker and Mark Zusman,[5] who took the positions of publisher and editor, respectively. Meeker had been one of the paper's first reporters, starting in 1974, and Zusman had joined the paper as a business writer in 1982.[4] Meeker and Zusman formed City of Roses Newspaper Company to publish WW and a sister publication, Fresh Weekly, a free guide to local arts and entertainment.
WW had a paid circulation at that time, with ab