Eureka is also home to several alternative weekly publications.

If journalism awards are any measure, some alternative publications are doing well.

Competition is rushing back into the newspaper industry in the form of urban weeklies that describe themselves as alternative publications.

She said that alternative publications have advantages in independence, focus, and access, which make them more effective public-interest advocates than the mainstream media.

With an average of over 220 pages each week, the Reader is reportedly the largest alternative publication in the nation.

The paper originated in December 1995 as the city's first alternative weekly publication.

Its staff have published in professional journals, scholastic books, popular press and alternative publications.

The collections are devoted to subjects like alternative publications, Latin America, natural history and children's literature.

Distributed to beach bathers and the like, it quickly became one of the country's top, alternative publications, before disappearing sometime in 1987.

If school administrators ever try to interfere with these alternative publications, every responsible educator and journalist should protest.