Willamette Week

Hat tip to Rogue Pundit.
The Willamette Week is a news and entertainment info magazine that has been around for 30 years. It has gripping and very long investigative articles, music and band listings, and best of all it's free. All it's income comes from advertisers, and it's distribution method is simple: it is only available on the street or at selected businesses around town. No home delivery.
More-so than the Oregonian (and most other big-money news organizations) the paper encourages hard investigative journalism. Some people shy away from it because of it's big city/small paper liberalism. Not surprising here in Portland. However I have come to appreciate it for articles that are not just sound bites, but try to get every angle on it.
That philosophy sometimes pays off, and this time it has big time.
Journalist Nigel Jaquiss wrote an article on former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt's elicit relationship with a 14 year old in the 70s. This week he was awarded journalism's highest honor: a Pulitzer Prize.
Only five Pulitzers (at three papers) have ever been given to a journalist at an alternative newspaper.