About Seattle Weekly
Founded by Darrell Oldham and David Brewster in 1976, Seattle Weekly has been the premiere source for entertainment, culture, and narrative journalism for more than 3 decades. While maintaining its roots as a free weekly newspaper, Seattle Weekly has become a daily presence on seattleweekly.com providing real-time news and analysis from the city, as well as comprehensive coverage of the local food and music communities.
Highlights of Seattle Weekly Honors
NATIONAL AWARDS
AAN AltWeekly Awards
2010 - Rick Anderson - "Lethally Blonde"
2008 - Rick Anderson - "
The Lavender Lie"
Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism
2010 - Nina Shapiro - Group Project - "Amongst U.S."
Best Food Writing Anthology
2010 - Jonathan Kauffman - ". . .And You Will Know Us by the Trail of German Butterballs"
Bert Greene Award/International Association of Culinary Professionals
2009 - Jonathan Kauffman - Winner, Internet Story - "What I Saw, and Ate, at the Pig 'Sacrifice'"
Best American Crimewriting/Harper Perennial
2009 - Rick Anderson - "Smooth Jailing"
Da Cappo's Best Music Writing
2011 anthology, honorable mentions
- Conor Christofferson - "About a Grandson"
- Chris Kornelis - "Marco Collins Picks Up the Pieces"
- John Roderick - "Chucked Profit: Benefit Shows Can Be Bad Business"
Best Non-required Reading/Houghton Mifflin
2009 - Aimee Curl-Riordan - "I'm Not with Busey"
Association of Food Journalists Award
2009 - Jonathan Kauffman - "Juno Aces on Ambience" & "Nostalgic for Where You've Never Been"
2008 - Jonathan Kauffman - Finalist, Best Newspaper Restaurant Criticism
Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Awards
2010 - Rick Anderson - "Watching the Protesters"
PASS Award - National Council on Crime & Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award
2010 - Nina Shapiro - "Streetwise He Wasn't"
2008 - Laura Onstot - Winner, Newspapers - "Neverminded"
National Association of Black Journalists Award
2008 - Brian Miller - Winner, Feature - "Fantasy Island"
2008 - Mike Seely - Winner, Feature - "The Salvage Artist"
2007 - Nina Shapiro - Winner, Feature - "Schooling the District"
Best Food Writing/Avalon Books
2007 - Michael Stusser - "Organicize Me"
National Mental Health Association Award
2005 - Philip Dawdy - Winner, Best Coverage of a Mental Health Issue - "Good Cop, Sad Cop"
REGIONAL AWARDS
Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing
2008 - Rick Anderson - "Cracking the Lavender Code"
Pacific Northwest Excellence in Journalism Awards/Society of Professional Journalists Region 10
2011 - Rick Anderson, Nina Shapiro, Laura Onstot, Vernal Coleman, Caleb Hannan, Mike Seely, Boo Davis, John Keatley, Hannah K. Lee
2010 - Rick Anderson, Nina Shapiro
2009 - Aimee Curl, Jonathan Kauffman, Laura Onstot, Nina Shapiro, and Jane Sherman
2008 - Rick Anderson, Brian Miller, Aimee Curl, Huan Hsu, Jonathan Kauffman, Nina Shapiro, Karla Starr, and Michael Stusser
2007 - Knute Berger, Philip Dawdy, Mike Seely, and Harley Solte
