Monterey County Weekly

Monterey County Weekly
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) Milestone Communications Inc.
Founder(s) Bradley H. Zeve
Founded 1988
Headquarters 668 Williams Ave, Seaside, California
 United States
Website www.montereycountyweekly.com

The Monterey County Weekly (Sometimes called the "Weekly," formerly the Coast Weekly.[1]) is a locally owned and independent newsmedia company founded in 1988. [2] As per the publication's name, it publishes weekly, and is based in the city of Seaside, in Monterey County, California. The Weekly has been a member of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia since 1989.

History

Monterey County Weekly was launched in 1988 by Bradley Zeve, its founding Editor & Publisher, and current CEO. Zeve currently serves as the Free Speech chair for the Association of Alternative Newsmedia and is the former president of the Sea Studios Foundation (Zeve co-founded The Sun newspaper in Santa Cruz, CA). Erik Cushman serves as Publisher and currently sits on the California Newspaper Publisher's Association Board of Directors. Cushman was the co-founder of the Missoula Independent.

The Weekly established the Monterey County Weekly Community Fund at the Community Foundation for Monterey County in 2000, and launched Monterey County Gives! in 2009.[3] To date, the fund has raised and donated over $17 million to 450+ local nonprofits, in partnership with the Community Foundation, the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Neumeier Poma Investment Council, Cannery Row Company and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The annual campaign runs from mid-November to midnight December 31.

The Weekly currently reaches one in three households in Monterey County (audited by Verified Audit Circulation), making it the most widely read publication in Monterey County. The Weekly begin uploading its entire contents online beginning in 1996, and now has four-weekly newsletters (Monday-Fresh Squid, Wednesday- Food & Drink, Thursday- Weekend Calendar, Sunday- Sunday e-paper).

Most recent readership audit Print Publication: Average Net Circulation: 33,583 (Print Edition) e-Edition only of Newspaper: Average Monthly Unique Users: 4,303 (Digital Edition) Website: Average Website Unique Users per week: 143,555 Social Media: Average Facebook Likes: 14,266 Average Twitter Followers: 8,406 E‐Newsletters: Average E‐Newsletter Subscribers: 36,086

Recipient of the First Amendment Coalition Free Speech & Open Government Award (2015) and Association of Alternative Newsmedia Free Speech Award (2016) http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/cover/the-case-of-father-edward-fitz-henry-and-the-diocese/collection_6bbb9bac-7d22-11e5-92df-8b0111c3f1e4.html

The mission of Monterey County Weekly is to inspire independent thinking and conscious action, etc.

Outstanding achievements

While its reporting is almost entirely 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 1990s and the Iraq war in early 2003 .[4]

The Weekly was an early adapter to digital news and began publishing online, as well as in print, in 1996. The Weekly has 165 solar panels on its rooftop and generates 100% of its electricity from solar.[5] The Weekly is headquartered in the first commercial office building designed by renowned architect Charles Moore (who won the AIA Gold Medal in 1991. The Weekly Building, in Seaside, California, is certified by the US Green Building Council as LEED Platinum: Existing Building in 2009, the first existing building in the tri-county area to obtain that designation, and the first newspaper in the USA to be generate 100% of its electricity by the sun.[6]

The paper has won nearly 100 local, regional, state or national editorial awards for editorial content, design and photography.[7] Monterey County Weekly was awarded General Excellence for large circulation weekly newspapers by the California Newspaper Publishers Association (2012, runner-up 2013) [8] and the 2015 Free Speech & Open Government award from the First Amendment Coalition.[9]

The newspaper was sued by Marina CA Mayoral Candidate Kevin P Saunders in 2017 and has yet to recapture its reputation locally. Editor Sara Rubin was caught in a public lie as well as dealing with Mr Saunders charges of Bias against her and the dwindling paper. Mr Saunders is now running for Bill Monning's termed out State Senate seat in 2020 on a platform of Psilocybin Legalization, Rent Control and banning AIPAC from CA Politics.He is taking the CA Bar Exam in 2019 and opening Marina's first and only pot dispensary in its history. Meanwhile, Kevin P Saunders is awaiting trial on October 30,2018 on charges of witness tampering. The 'victim' is disgraced Monterey PD detective Matthew Blackmon whose currently under investigation by multiple agencies for stealing evidence from the evidence lockers and selling the drugs to teenagers and bar patrons at the Mucky Duck, a local watering hole.

References

  1. ↑ "Coast Weekly Changes Name to Monterey County Weekly - Press Releases - AltWeeklies.com". www.altweeklies.com. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  2. ↑ "Monterey County Weekly - AltWeeklies.com". www.altweeklies.com. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  3. ↑ "Monterey County Gives!". mcgives.com. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  4. ↑ "Monterey County Coast Weekly Reporter Returns from Iraq - Press Releases - AltWeeklies.com". www.altweeklies.com. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  5. ↑ "Monterey County Weekly Goes Solar - Press Releases - AltWeeklies.com". www.altweeklies.com. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  6. ↑ "Monterey County Weekly - U.S. Green Building Council". www.usgbc.org. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  7. ↑ "Awards". Monterey County Weekly. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  8. ↑ "Monterey County Weekly Wins CNPA Award for General Excellence – Editor & Publisher". www.editorandpublisher.com. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  9. ↑ "Monterey County Weekly Awarded The First Amendment Coalition Free Speech and Open Government Award – Editor & Publisher". www.editorandpublisher.com. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
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