By Mark Hanzlik, Executive Director

I read a post this morning in E&P reporting long-time AWN member Pacific Northwest Inlander will be relocating to their own new building in Spokane.  That’s more positive newspaper publishing news than we’re accustomed to hearing lately, good luck to McGregor’s and the Inlander staff.

Publisher Ted McGregor shares some of his thoughts in the E&P post, supporting local as well as continuing to produce the kind of good journalism that has become rare these days.   The Pacific Northwest Inlander is often at the top of the list of free alternative weeklies in percentage of audience reached according to The Media Audit.

We  share an important anniversary with the Inlander.  They began publishing in the Pacific Northwest in 1993 and we left the Pacific Northwest at the same time to come to Sacramento and expand the CAL-AAN group into the national cooperative that we have today.   Like ships passing in the night.