Now in its 24th year of publication,Pasadena Weekly is the definitive news, culture and entertainment resource for living in the greater Pasadena area. Pasadena Weekly is published every Thursday, and is available free at more than 675 locations throughout Northeast Los Angeles County. Circulation: 35,000.
Pasadena Weekly has been adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation in Court Judgment No. C-655062.
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Editorial Excellence
Pasadena's hometown paper leads its peers in the area of journalistic excellence. Pasadena Weekly takes pride in not only providing exemplary coverage of the region's expansive culture, arts and dining scenes, but also in breaking stories - something virtually unheard of in the alternative or weekly community newspaper business. Thanks to the Internet and our affiliation with the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN), Pasadena Weekly's editorial now has a global audience.
Over the past several years, Pasadena Weekly has won major national, state and regional awards for its coverage of the Greater Pasadena area and beyond.
Recent Editorial Highlights:
• Relentlessly hounding the Pasadena City Council to obey a voter-approved campaign finance law.
• Forcing prosecutors to drop charges against an Alhambra woman who complained about gang
activity in her neighborhood and was herself put in jail.
• Calling on the FBI to investigate a porno website operating at the Glendale Police Station.
• Exposing ghoulish conditions of LA's animal shelter system.
• Reporting on the true and frightening extent of chromium 6 contamination of area water wells.
• Our series on the horrors of the state's foster care system led to major changes in policy and
numerous awards, including top honors from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and
the California Newspaper Publisher's Association.
• Deputy Editor Joe Piasecki's series, "Throwaway Kids," won the National Low Income Housing
Coalition's Cushing Niles Dolbeare Media Award and the Price Child Health and Welfare Journalism
Award by the Children's Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law.
Recent Awards:
2007
First Place - Media Criticism
AAN - National
"Project Censored," Kevin Uhrich
First Place
The Cushing Niles Dolbeare Media Award,
Presented by the National Low Income Housing Coalition
"Throwaway Kids," Joe Piasecki
First Place
Price Child Health and Welfare Journalism Award,
Presented by the Children's Advocacy Institute at
the University of San Diego School of Law
"Throwaway Kids," Joe Piasecki
Second Place - Feature Writing
AAN - National
"Throwaway Kids," Joe Piasecki
Second Place - Community Service
California Newspaper Publisher's Association (CNPA)
"Throwaway Kids," Joe Piasecki
Second Place - Investigative Reporting
LA Press Club
"Who Killed Stephen Ballreich?," Chip Jacobs
Second Place - Feature Writing
LA Press Club
"Project Censored," Kevin Uhrich
2006
Second Place - Arts Coverage
CNPA
"Killing Them Loudly" and "The Truth (with jokes)," Carl Kozlowski;
plus calendar, content and reviews editied by Julie Riggott
Second Place - Illustration
AAN - National
"Biting Back," Glenda Chiu
Second Place - Illustration
CNPA
"Biting Back," Glenda Chiu
Second Place - Special Issue
CNPA
Fall Arts Preview
Third Place - Cover Design
AAN - National
"Green Machines," "Confessions of an Ex-Commie,"
"Flight Paths of Death," Agnes Carrera, Michael Germana
and Dan Santat