''Boise Weekly'' is a newspaper in
Boise, Idaho
Boise (, , ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho and is the county seat of Ada County. On the Boise River in southwestern Idaho, it is east of the Oregon border and north of the Nevada border. The downtown ar ...
, United States. It was founded in 1992 by Andy and Debi Hedden-Nicely and Larry Regan.
It is owned by
Adams Publishing Group
Adams Publishing Group LLC (APG) is a company that provides publishing services, including newspapers, periodicals, and website publishing in the United States. Its corporate headquarters is located in Coon Rapids, Minnesota. Mark Adams, the son ...
's Western Division
and is part of ''
The Idaho Press
''The Idaho Press'' of Nampa, Idaho is the second-oldest active newspaper in Idaho, first printed in December 1883. In its early years, the newspaper was often an instrument of political influence. One of the first owners and editors was Frank Ste ...
''.
It has an unaudited circulation of 35,000 and is published weekly on Wednesday. Its market is southwestern Idaho from
McCall on the northwest to
Sun Valley to the east.
In February 2000, the paper was sold to the
Portland, Oregon
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-based City of Roses Newspaper Company, which also owns two other
alt-weekly
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newspapers, ''
Willamette Week
''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
''Willame ...
'' and the ''
Santa Fe Reporter
The ''Santa Fe Reporter'' (''SFR'') is an alternative weekly newspaper published in Santa Fe, New Mexico. First published in 1974, the ''Santa Fe Reporter'' features reports on local news, politics, art and culture, and is published once a week ...
'',
but only a year and a half later, in August 2001, City of Roses sold the ''Boise Weekly'' to Mark ("Bingo") Barnes and Sally Barnes
(''nee'' Freeman). Bingo Barnes became its publisher and editor-in-chief.
The Barneses were married, but they later divorced and Sally Barnes resumed using her unmarried name of Sally Freeman. In 2007, Bingo Barnes left to become publisher of the ''
Anchorage Press
The ''Anchorage Press'' is a free alternative weekly newspaper based in Anchorage, Alaska and owned by Wick Communications.
Established in 1992 by Bill Boulay, Barry Bialik, and Nick Coltman as the ''Anchorage Bypass'', it was renamed the ''An ...
'' and in 2013 became the editor of Kuna Melba News in Kuna, Idaho. Freeman became full owner of the ''Boise Weekly'', also remaining its publisher.
See also
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Media in Boise, Idaho
References
External links
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Newspapers published in Idaho
Alternative weekly newspapers published in the United States
Publications established in 1992
Mass media in Boise, Idaho
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