The Washington Informer
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The Washington Informer is a weekly newspaper published in Washington, D.C. The Informer is female-owned and is targeted at the African-American population of the D.C. metropolitan area.[1][2] The publisher is Denise Rolark Barnes, whose father, Calvin W. Rolark (1927–1994),[3][4] founded the paper in 1964.[5]
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Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Founder(s) | Calvin W. Rolark |
Publisher | Denise Rolark Barnes |
Editor | Micha Green |
Photo editor | Shevry Lassiter |
Staff writers | Austin R. Cooper, Jr., Brenda Siler, James Wright, Jr.,Kayla Benjamin, Sam P.K. Collins, Stacy Brown,Lindiwe Vilakazi,Richard Elliott |
Founded | October 16, 1964; 59 years ago (October 16, 1964) |
Headquarters | Washington, DC |
Circulation | 50,000 |
ISSN | 0741-9414 |
OCLC number | 60630464 |
Website | Washington Informer |
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At the 2011 Second Annual Ethnic Media Awards competition, the Informer received first-place honors for feature writing and local news.[6]