Mark Zusman
Mark Zusman is the editor of Willamette Week, a media company based in Portland, Oregon. It is part of the City of Roses Newspaper Company, which also owns the Santa Fe Reporter in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Indy Week in The Triangle area of North Carolina.[1]
Zusman and business partner Richard Meeker created City of Roses in 1982.[2] In 2005, Willamette Week became the first and only weekly newspaper to win the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting[3] and the first 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 stories he wrote about Nike.[4] In 2013, Zusman was inducted into the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication Hall of Achievement.[5]
Zusman has been the president of the board of the Independent Media Institute based in San Francisco. He was elected to the board of the Washington D.C.-based Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (now the Association of Alternative Newsmedia) in 2005[6] and later served as its president.[7] He serves as a judge for the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism.[8]
Zusman taught journalism at the University of Oregon and has lectured at the Academy of Alternative Journalism at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. He is also a former fellow of the East–West Center.
Zusman and Meeker are the founders of MusicfestNW, a two decade old music festival that takes place in clubs throughout Portland and on the waterfront each summer [9] He is the founder of TechfestNW, an annual conference in Portland, Oregon.[10][11][12]
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External links
- Willamette Week website
- TechFestNW website
- Pulitzer Awards 2005
- "Inside the Coverage of a Mayoral Sex Scandal," February 2, 2009, Newsweek
- Video on YouTube
- Hall of Achievement
- Hall of Achievement Video on YouTube
- Interview with Zusman about resignation of Governor John Kitzhaber
- discussion with Mark Zusman, Mayor Charlie Hales, and Uber's David Plouffe
- City Club with Colin Cowherd and Steve Duin
- / Zusman on Who Needs Newspapers