The Washington Informer

See also: List of newspapers in Washington, D.C.

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]

The Washington Informer

Type	Weekly newspaper
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; 60 years ago (October 16, 1964)
Headquarters	Washington, DC
Circulation	50,000
ISSN	0741-9414
OCLC number	60630464
Website	Washington Informer

The Washington Informer dispenser at Huntington metro station

At the 2011 Second Annual Ethnic Media Awards competition, the Informer received first-place honors for feature writing and local news.^[6]

Contributors

Contributors to the publication include notable writers, political activists and editors such as:

• Rob Redding

Statistics

• Total circulation: 50,000^{[citation needed]}
  • District of Columbia
  • Prince George's County
  • Montgomery County
  • Northern Virginia
• Trade association memberships
  • National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA)
  • Newspaper Association of America (NAA)
  • Maryland, Delaware DC Press Association (MDDC)

See also

• United States portal
• Journalism portal

• Wilhelmina Rolark, former owner of the paper