Editing Willamette Week (section)

===Early history===
''Willamette Week'' was founded in 1974 by Ronald A. Buel,<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 17, 1974 |title=Weekly Newspaper Planned |work=Oregon Journal |pages=2}}</ref> who served as its first publisher.<ref name=pbj-apr99>{{cite news|last=Bellotti|first=Mary|title=Alternative success story|newspaper=[[Portland Business Journal]]|date=April 25, 1999|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/1999/04/26/story7.html|access-date=August 28, 2012|archive-date=June 10, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610203740/http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/1999/04/26/story7.html|url-status=live}}</ref>  It was later owned by the Eugene [[The Register-Guard|''Register-Guard'']], which sold it in the fall of 1983 to Richard H. Meeker  and [[Mark Zusman]],<ref name=oreg-jan84>Nicholas, Jonathan (January 9, 1984). "Free, and fresh, weekly". ''[[The Oregonian]]'', p. B1.</ref> who took the positions of publisher and [[Editor-in-chief|editor]], respectively. Meeker had been one of the paper's first reporters, starting in 1974, and Zusman had joined the paper as a business writer in 1982.<ref name=pbj-apr99/> Meeker and Zusman formed City of Roses Newspaper Company to publish ''WW'' and a sister publication, ''Fresh Weekly'', a free guide to local arts and entertainment. ''WW'' had a [[Newspaper circulation|paid circulation]] at that time, with about 12,000 [[subscriber]]s.<ref name=oreg-jan84/>