The ''Palo Alto Weekly'' is a weekly community

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Palo Alto Palo Alto ( ; Spanish language, Spanish for ) is a charter city in northwestern Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a Sequoia sempervirens, coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto. Th ...

in the U.S. state of

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. Owned by Embarcadero Media Foundation, formerly Embarcadero Media, it serves Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, Portola Valley, Stanford, East Palo Alto and Los Altos Hills. It was established in 1979 as an alternative to the town's daily newspaper, the '' Peninsula Times Tribune'', which ceased publishing in 1993. At that time, the ''Weekly'' expanded to twice-a-week. In 1995, a new daily, the '' Palo Alto Daily News'', began publishing. In 2008, a second daily, '' The Daily Post'', began in Palo Alto. In September 2009, the ''Weekly'' reverted to publishing just one day a week, on Fridays. The ''Weekly'' is published by Embarcadero Media Foundation. Sarah Wright became

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in 2024 succeeding Jocelyn Dong, who became editor in 2011. In January 1994, the newspaper began to publish all its content on its website. The website includes a classified advertising section shared among Embarcadero's other publications, and the newspaper is distributed free by mail to many households in its market area, with a circulation of approximately 37,000. It is a member of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.

Awards

The paper has won several awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association. *First Place: Local News Coverage; Local Breaking-News Story; Feature Story *Second Place: Feature Story; Environmental Reporting; Sports Coverage; General News Photo; Photo Essay; Freedom of Information

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