About Us
Portland Picks is Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice. Â If we can't say anything nice, we don't say it at all.
Portland Picks is a free, subscription-driven weekly publication, sent out every Friday via email and then updated on our homepage. It’s a fun and sassy format for "City Secrets," delivered in a timely and unique manner to a highly targeted market. Portland Picks reaches mostly women, busy and well-educated “influencers,” who want to know about businesses, items and services that enhance their lives.
Portland Picks' founder, Kathi O'Neil, started her career in Manhattan with Hearst Magazines and The Hearst Corporation. A native Oregonian, O'Neil and her husband returned to Portland in the early 90s. Â There O'Neil started Westover Media, a full-service marketing firm whose partial list of clients includes: Elle, In Style, Lucky, Tom's of Maine, Oprah, Gourmet, The New Yorker, Town and Country, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Conde Nast Traveler, W and Health, to name a few.
Alisa Sloan is the Editor-in-Chief of City Picks Group, and oversees the managing editors, content and ad placements in all the City Picks cities. She runs Portland Picks as managing editor/ad director. She has been with City Picks Group since June of 2005, and has more than 13 years of experience in magazine, newspaper and Web publishing, print and online marketing, and Web-content management.
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Portland Picks contains mostly the unsolicited opinions of the Portland Picks staff. They are hints, recommendations, and local secrets about restaurants, hangouts, shops, products, and services.  We sometimes include paid placements which are noted with a "sponsored" banner. Hip Happenings and Events of the Week are always paid placements. Portland Picks's parent company, City Picks Group , is a subsidiary of Westover Media, LLC.
Visit the other publications in the City Picks family at www.SeattlePicks.com, www.MinneapolisPicks.com, www.PhoenixPicks.com, www.ChicagoPicks.com, www.SeattlePicksforMen.com and www.PortlandPicksforMen.com! Help us spread the word. If you like what you see, tell your friends in our sister cities to sign up today ... it's free!
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| Kathi O’Neil Publisher |
Alisa Sloan Editor in Chief |
Amy Drew Contributing Writer |
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| Brooke Preston Contributing Writer |
Holley Shepard Contributing Writer |
Tara Dublin Contributing Writer |
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| Sam Roloff Creative Services / Web |
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| Editorial Policy: Contributing writers' submissions are completely unsolicited. Advertorial is written only by the Editor-in-Chief and is marked with an "Advertise with Us" banner, except for Hip Happenings. |
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