The Willamette Week is an alternative weekly published in Portland, Oregon. It features reports on local news, politics, and culture. In several cases, the paper has scoop The Oregonian , Portland s major daily newspaper.
Notable stories first reported by the Week include:
Making public for his work on the story. It was only the fifth time in the prize s 88-year history that a Pulitzer was awarded to a weekly paper, and the first in five years.
Revealing that Lewis & Clark College president Michael Mooney had made an unauthorized loan to a energy startup on which the company had default (finance) [http://www.wweek.com/story.phpstory=3988]. The story lead to Mooney s eventual resignation.
Sifting through the trash of the Portland s mayor, police chief, and the district attorney for Multnomah County, Oregon, after prosectors argued that refuse was not protected by the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution [http://www.wweek.com/story.phpstory=3485].
A 1987 article which made detailed charges against homeless activist Michael Stoops, and founder of the Baloney Joe s homeless shelter, which stated extorted sex from homeless male teenagers in return for shelter and food. While a subsequent investigation confirmed the article s charges (including evidence that Stoops had contracted gonorrhea of the throat), which led to Stoops being fired and Baloney Joe s eventually being closed, this article also resulted in a backlash at Willamette Week and a loss of advertising revenue.[http://www.wweek.com/story.phpstory=5718]
An exposé on Mary Manin Morrissey and her Living Enrichment Center.
Notable features of the Willamette Week include:
The Rogue of the Week , in which a recent action by a local person or organization is criticized.
Winners and losers , in which the newspaper gives a brief recap of the major news events of the week, from the perspective of who benefited and who did not.
=See also=
Salem Monthly is Salem, Oregon s somewhat similar alternative newspaper.
=External links and sources=
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http://www.wweek.com/ Official website]
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http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2005/investigative-reporting/ The paper s Pulitzer Prize]
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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jspvnu_content_id=1000865931 The Willamette Week and others win a 2005 Pulitzer Prize], only the fifth time a weekly has done so