User:Earthweek

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How Earthweek appears in print.
Type Environmental column
Format Graphics and text
Owner Earth Environment Service
Publisher Through Universal Press Syndicate
Editor Steve Newman
Founded January 2, 1988
Language English
Headquarters Pilot Point, Texas
Circulation Nearly 100 newspapers worldwide
Website: http://www.earthweek.com

Earthweek - A Diary of the Planet is a syndicated newspaper column created by Steve Newman. It is published weekly on various days by subscribing newspaper, and reports on events in Earth's natural history.

From man-made occurrences to nature's own news, Earthweek provides a weekly overview of headline events affecting our planet -- cyclones, floods, brushfires, oil spills and nuclear testing. Other stories are a bit more unusual -- monkey attacks, snake infestations and a bounty of phenomena as diverse as nature itself.

The feature premiered in the San Francisco Chronicle on Saturday, January 2, 1988, and began syndication through the now-defunct Chronicle Features in early September of that year.

Earthweek moved briefly to Universal Press Syndicate in 1998, when Andrews McMeel Universal purchased Chronicle Feature. Author Steve Newman moved the column to the Los Angeles Times Syndicate in June 1998, where its circulation increased and an online version was created.

A subsequent purchase of that syndicate by the Tribune Company absorbed Earthweek into Tribune Media Services, which discontinued the online version and oversaw a slow decline in the column's print subscriptions and sales.

Earthweek joined Universal Press Syndicate once again in June 2003. The feature is now published in nearly 100 newspapers worldwide, and an interactive version was launched by UClick in July 2006.

Author Steve Newman lives and works on a ranch outside Pilot Point, Texas, where is raises horses and cattle in his spare time.

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