Metroactive's web awards

Magellan's
Four Star Site Award

NetGuideLive's
Four Star Site Rating

Lycos'
Top 5% of the Web

Featured in Lycos'
City Guides

City's Best
US Web Sites

The Metro Silicon Valley page, Metroactive's Dining section and Metro's multilevel marketing critique have all won the LookSmart Editor's Choice award.

MacroMusic's
NoteWorthy! Site of the Day
on January 19, 1998.

Metroactive's off-beat collection of Thrift Shop Finds was a Gist Web Pick on Thursday, December 5, 1996.

Metroactive's bitingly cynical essay on Microserfs author Douglas Coupland was the Cruel Site of the Day on August 15, 1996.

Metro's award winning papers

Sonoma County Independent editor and reporter won the Lincoln Steffens Award for investigative journalism, May 1999.

Los Gatos Weekly-Times, Metro Santa Cruz and Metro won first place awards at the California Newspaper Publishers Association 1997 Better Newspapers Contest.

Metro Santa Cruz and Sonoma County Independent writers and illustrators won first place awards at the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Editorial Awards, June 1998.

Metro and Metro Santa Cruz writers and photographers were honored at the Peninsula Press Club's 1997 Professional Journalism Awards Competition.

Six papers in the Metro Newspapers group were honored for writing, editing and design at the California Newspaper Publishers Association Better Newspapers Awards, July 1997.

Metro and Metro Santa Cruz photographers, designers and writers won first and second place awards at the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Editorial Awards, June 1997.

Three papers in the Metro Newspapers group won at the National Newspaper Association's 1995 contest, announced September 1996.

Five papers in the Metro Newspapers group were honored for writing, editing and design at the California Newspaper Publishers Association Better Newspapers Awards, July 1996.

Metro food and music writers took first place at the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Editorial Awards, May 1996.