Good Times (newspaper) 2008 it won first place for environmental and agricultural reporting. Good Times (newspaper) Good Times is a free-circulation weekly newspaper based in Santa Cruz, California. "Good Times" is distributed in Santa Cruz County, a coastal area that includes Capitola, Rio del Mar, Aptos and Watsonville. It is owned by the Northern California-based Metro Newspapers. Dan Pulcrano is the CEO and executive editor. "Good Times" was founded in 1975 by Jay Shore, who remained its owner/operator and editor for 13 years. Shore established "Good Times" amidst a proliferation in the 1970s of short-lived free counterculture newspapers in Santa Cruz County that
The Metropolitan (newspaper) won hundreds of awards from organizations such as the Society of Professional Journalists, Rocky Mountain Collegiate Press Association, and the Associated Collegiate Press. The Office of Student Media is run by a director and assistant director. In 1979, staff from previous student publications, The Paper, Cherry Creek Pioneer and The Auraria Times joined together and started The Metropolitan. Emerson Schwartzkopf, and Steve Werges are credited for launching The Metropolitan, they were assisted by Frank X Mullen, Sal Ruibal, and S. Peter Duray-Bito, Metropolitan State University of Denver’s current student newspaper. The original newspaper offices were located in the Plaza Building.