Mark Zusman

Who is Mark Zusman?

Mark Zusman is the editor of Willamette Week, an alt-weekly newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, and co-owner of City of Roses Newspaper Company, which publishes Willamette Week.

Along with business partner Richard Meeker, Zusman also owns alt-weekly newspapers in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Santa Fe Reporter, and in the Triangle in North Carolina, the Independent Weekly. Zusman and Meeker acquired Willamette Week in 1982, and Zusman has been its editor since that time. In 2005, his paper became the first and only weekly newspaper to win the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting 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 wrote about Nike. 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 in 2005 and later served as its president. He serves as a judge for the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism.