Mark Zusman

Mark Zusman is the editor of Willamette Week, an alt-weekly newspaper based in Portland, Oregon.

Along with business partner Richard Meeker, Zusman owns the paper and another alt-weekly in Santa Fe, New Mexico, The Santa Fe Reporter. Zusman has been editor of Willamette Week for 26 years. In 2005, his paper became the first and only weekly newspaper to win the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.^[1] and the first newspaper to win a Pulitzer for a story that was first published on the web. In 1986, Zusman was awarded the Gerald Loeb award for Business Journalism for an article he did about Nike. Zusman has been the president of the board of the Independent Media Institute, based in San Francisco, and served as President of the board of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, based in Washington D.C. He serves as a judge for the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism. He has taught journalism at the University of Oregon and lectured at the Academy of Alternative Journalism at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He is also a former fellow of the East-West Center. Zusman and Meeker are also the founders of MusicfestNW, now the third largest indoor music festival in the United States, which takes place in the fall and which was cited by Time Magazine as one of the "50 Authentic American Experiences of 2009".^[2] He is also the founder of Candidates Gone Wild, a series of election debates that include irreverent videos and candidate quizzes.

References

1. ^ "Tri City Herald - Google News Archive Search". http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VQIyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FqsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1379,968071&dq=editor+mark+zusman+pulitzer&hl=en. Retrieved 2010-02-22. ^{[dead link]}
2. ^ Tucker, Reed (July 13, 2009). "50 Authentic American Experiences in 2009: Oregon". Time Magazine. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1909343_1909285_1909303,00.html. Retrieved July 24, 2011. 

<http://wweek.com/editorial/3525/12497/>

External links

• WWeek.com
• Pultizer Awards 2005
• Payne Awards
• Newsweek

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Name	Zusman, Mark
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Short description	American editor
Date of birth	1954
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