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The ''San Diego Reader'' is the largest alternative press paper in the county of San Diego, distributed free in stands and private businesses throughout the county, funded by advertisements. Averaging 115,000 copies per issue, it reportedly has the largest circulation of any alternative weekly publication in the nation.〔(AltWeeklies.com Directory )〕 It frequently presents an opposing viewpoint to the ''San Diego Union Tribune'', the primary printed newspaper in the city. The ''Reader'' was founded in 1972 by Jim Holman, a Carleton College graduate who was a member of the group which established the ''Chicago Reader''. Although Holman briefly owned shares in the Chicago paper, none of the Chicago owners had an interest in the San Diego paper. Holman used the Reader format and nameplate with the blessings of his friends in Chicago. Noted for its literary style of journalism and coverage of the arts, particularly film and theater, the ''Reader'' is recognized as a pioneer among alternative weeklies for both its creative nonfiction and its commercial scheme, using ad revenue (particularly from classifieds and entertainment promotions) to establish the practice of widespread free circulation, a cornerstone of today's alternative papers. Published weekly since October 1972, the ''Reader'' is known as a showcase for San Diego writers and photographers. Each issue of the ''Reader'' is dated every Thursday and distributed free on Wednesday and Thursday via street boxes and cooperating retail outlets. ==Background== Specializing in feature stories, the ''Reader'' covers San Diego life in general, with emphasis on politics and the arts and entertainment. The ''Reader'' also publishes listings of movies, events, theater and music, restaurant and film reviews, and free classified advertisements for its readers. Its ("City Lights" ) section contains short investigative reports into the dealings of the city, while the "Calendar" section highlights local society, things to do, places to eat, and the local music scene. Notable cover stories have included in-depth overviews chronicling San Diego history and pop culture, such as ''Before It Was the Gaslamp: Downtown’s Grindhouse Theater Row in the ‘70s'',〔(Before It Was the Gaslamp: Downtown’s Grindhouse Theater Row in the ‘70s )〕 ''Gompers School Takes a Bow'',〔(Gompers School Takes a Bow )〕 ''The Rise and Fall of San Diego’s Pacific Comics'',〔(The Rise and Fall of San Diego’s Pacific Comics )〕 ''Pussycat Theaters – a Comprehensive History of a California Dynasty'',〔(Pussycat Theaters – a Comprehensive History of a California Dynasty )〕 ''Field of Screens: San Diego Drive-In Theater History 1947–2008'',〔(Field of Screens: San Diego Drive-In Theater History 1947 – 2008 )〕 and ''Africans, Asians, Hispanics, and Hipsters: Changes in City Heights''.〔(Africans, Asians, Hispanics, and Hipsters: Changes in City Heights )〕 The March 28, 2012 cover feature ''People Will Tell You That You're Late and You'll Hate Them for It''.,〔(People Will Tell You That You're Late and You'll Hate Them for It )〕 with confessions of a San Diego USPS mail carrier, earned national coverage on TV programs like 20/20 (U.S. TV series). Among the website's most-viewed and most-commented stories are its profile of Jack Ruby’s rabbi, ''The Kennedy Assassination's Last Insider'',〔(Kennedy Assassination's Last Insider )〕 an account of a local chalk-graffiti artist's arrest ''The Mad Chalker'',〔(Mad Chalker )〕 ''The La Jolla Cove is a Sea Lion Cesspool'',〔(Sea Lion Cesspool )〕 ''Hikers Discover Marijuana Plantation in Local State Park'',〔(Citizen Pot Bust )〕 ''Mitt Romney’s San Diego Connections'',〔(Come to Romney Country )〕 and ''Surfers' Incurable Obsession''.〔(Selfish Pursuit )〕 The paper has also become increasingly known for its local political coverage, due in no small part to the addition of columnist Don Bauder to the staff. Bauder become financial editor and columnist for the daily ''San Diego Union'' paper in 1973. When the ''Union'' and rival ''Tribune'' merged in the early 1990s, he remained at that post; in 1995, he was named senior columnist at the ''Union-Tribune''. In 1985 and 1986, Bauder wrote ''Captain Money and the Golden Girl'', a book about a local San Diego Ponzi scheme which stayed on the ''L.A. Times'' best-seller list for more than two months. He retired from the ''U-T'' in March 2003 and began writing his weekly column for the ''Reader'' in April 2003. He started his blog ( Scam Diego ) in September 2007, regularly engaging so many local readers that the comment section frequently racks up to a hundred or more comment posts for each blog post. Among the ''Reader’s'' political and sociological cover features are ''Soho VS Developers: What’s Worth Saving in San Diego'',〔(Soho VS Developers: What’s Worth Saving in San Diego )〕 ''Obama Taps Alan Bersin to Cover the Border'',〔(Obama Taps Alan Bersin to Cover the Border )〕 ''It’s Getting Ugly Downtown'',〔(It’s Getting Ugly Downtown )〕 ''What’s Wrong With Balboa Park?'',〔(What’s Wrong With Balboa Park? )〕 ''San Diego’s Secret Missile Testing Sites'',〔(San Diego’s Secret Missile Testing Sites )〕 and a whistleblowing feature ''Just Save My Life'',〔(Just Save My Life )〕 exposing how clinic trials of an experimental blood substitute called PolyHeme were being conducted on city medical patients without their knowledge. Beginning around 2003, a political comic strip also began running in the paper, "Obermeyer’s Cut," by Neal Obermeyer.〔(Obermeyer’s Cut )〕 Other well-known comic artists who've served as staffers include Jim Cornelius, who illustrated Matthew Alice's long-running ("Straight From the Hip" ) column from the earliest issues until being replaced by Rick Geary in the later 1970s, as well as famed surf artist and California landscape painter Jeff Yeomans (whose wall murals on San Diego buildings included the Unicorn Trading Company on India Street), political cartoonist J.D. Crowe (previously with the ''San Diego Union Tribune'' until drawing for the ''Reader'' from 1992 to 2000), underground cartoonist Spain Rodriguez (co-founder of ''Zap Comix''), and Revolutionary Comics Managing Editor Jay Allen Sanford. In the editorial staff, the paper’s longtime editor Judith Moore was an American author and essayist best known for her 2005 book ''Fat Girl: A True Story,'' published by Hudson Street Press. Joining the ''Reader'' staff in 1983 and subsequently known as “Mother Reader” for many years, she specialized in book reviews (especially food writing) and offbeat, whimsical feature subjects. Once, she visited a San Diego sausage factory and described it in lurid detail, in order to test the cliché that no one wanted to see sausage being made. She mentored dozens of writers still contributing to the paper to this day. Moore died of colon cancer after three years of treatment in May 2006. A memorial feature about Miss Moore written by several staffers ran August 16, 2007, called ''(She Hated Adverbs )''. The paper's local music coverage reportedly earns some of its heaviest website traffic, including columns and staff blogs like "Blurt", "Lists", "Musician Interviews", "Record Release Roundup", "Here's the Deal" (local venue reviews), "Rock Around the Town," "Jam Session," and "Out and About." The magazine's massive online "Local Music Database" chronicles the histories of over 4,000 San Diego bands and 10,000 local musicians, from the 1940s through today, with discographies, biographies, interviews, article links, videos, and playable MP3s. The music section comic strip ("Overheard in San Diego" ) has been running since late 1995, spinning off an omnibus book collection in 2012 containing over 700 strips. With an average of over 104 pages each week, the ''Reader'' reportedly has the largest circulation of any alternative publication in the nation. It is the second-largest circulation newspaper in San Diego, currently (as of summer 2014) claiming a single-issue circulation of 115,000.〔(AltWeeklies.com June 2014 Report, San Diego Reader )〕 As a free publication with high circulation figures, the ''Reader'' generates high advertising revenue. A quarter-page color ad sells from $1421 for one-time open rate to $711 for 24-time rate. Editor and publisher Jim Holman, a conservative Catholic who also publishes the online ''California Catholic Daily'', has reportedly spent more than $5 million of his own money on three separate ballot measures (Props. 73, 85 and 4) that would require a doctor to notify the parents of a minor female before performing an abortion. The most recent measure, Prop. 4, which would have amended the state constitution, was defeated 52 percent to 48 percent on Nov. 4, 2008. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「San Diego Reader」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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