Shepherd Express
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 The May 31, 2007 front page of the Shepherd Express |
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| Type | Alternative weekly |
| Format | Tabloid |
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| Owner | Privately Held |
| Publisher | Louis Fortis |
| Editor | Dave Luhrssen |
| Founded | 1982 |
| Price | FREE |
| Headquarters | 207 E. Buffalo Street Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202  United States |
| Circulation | 72,778[1] |
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| Website: ExpressMilwaukee.com | |
The Shepherd Express is an alternative weekly newspaper published in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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This is the site of the largest Milwaukee metro area alternative newspaper, and third largest newspaper in the state of Wisconsin. Features include: news, columnists, events, a band guide, a "best of" list, and archived articles dating back to 1998.
The Shepherd Express is Milwaukee’s weekly newspaper with a 2007 monthly average print and online readership of over 293,900 (Media Audit). According to Verified Audit Circulation, the Shepherd Express maintains industry standard practices on distribution at it's over 1,200 locations across Southeastern Wisconsin. It is a member of the Association of Alternative Newspapers AAN.Org and features coverage of state and local news, film and the arts and popular music along with social satire and an extensive calendar of events. It has been recognized many times over the years as “Best Music Newspaper” by the Wisconsin Area Music Awards.
The paper originated in May, 1982 as the Crazy Shepherd, its name derived from a line in Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Footnotes to Howl” (”Hail the crazy shepherds of the middle class”). Its founders were a group of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students who ran it from a series of rented flats near the campus. Many of the founders, including Doug Hissom and Joe Porubcan continue to work (or have until recently) worked, in lesser roles. After appearing sporadically, the Crazy Shepherd eventually settled into a monthly schedule. Several of its founders went on to careers in the news media, including Jim McCarter, publisher of the Metro Times in Detroit; Bill Conroy, editior of the San Antonio Business Journal; and Bill Lueders, news editor at Isthmus in Madison.
In 1987 the Shepherd Express was formed in a merger with the Express, a monthly music paper founded in 1978 by David Luhrssen and Kevin Kinney. Kinney went on to form the rock band Drivin’n’Cryin’ in Atlanta. Luhrssen returned to the Shepherd Express in 1994 as arts & entertainment editor, a position he still holds. The paper was known from 1999-2000 as Shepherd Express Metro, after absorbing a short-lived weekly called the Metro.
The Shepherd Express remains one of America’s few locally owned alternative newsweeklies. It has been published since 1997 by Louis Fortis, a real estate investor and former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. Fortis assumed the role of editor in 2000.
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- ^ Shepherd Express. Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. Retrieved on 2007-02-07.
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